Inyanga Mountains
Range/mtn · 58,492 km²
Inyanga Mountains is a range/mtn in Africa, covering an estimated 58,492 km². It extends across Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Mount Nyangani (formerly Mount Inyangani) is the highest mountain in Zimbabwe at 2,592 metres or 8,504 feet. The mountain is located within Nyanga National Park in Nyanga District, about 110 km (68 mi) north-northeast of Mutare. The summit lies atop a small outcrop of rock around 40 metres or 130 feet above the surrounding area. The remainder of the peak is a broad moor of mainly rolling hills and plateau with an area of about 8 km2. The edges of this plateau then fall steeply to the east and west sides. The mountain vegetation is largely composed of heath around the summit plateau with evergreen forest along the wetter eastern slopes and grassland to the western side. Annual rainfall totals are high (around 2,200 millimetres or 87 inches) but long spells of dry weather occur during the winter period of May to August. Due to its relatively low elevation and tropical location, snowfall is very rare; the last recorded snowfall occurred in August 1935.
Adapted from Wikipedia: Mount Nyangani (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Feature class
- Range/mtn
- Mapped extent
- 58,492 km²
- Size rank
- #73 of 216 mountain ranges
- Region
- Africa
- Countries
- Zimbabwe, Mozambique
- Coordinates
- -17.5018°, 32.5704°
- Adjacent ranges:
- Lebombo Mountains (Africa), Witwatersrand (Africa)
