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Chirundu is a village and border post in Zimbabwe on the border with Zambia, in Mashonaland West province. [1] The name Chirundu means "Big Hill". The village is located on the banks of the Zambezi river, and as a result it lies in the hot Zambezi Valley. It is the site of the Chirundu Bridges, two road bridges across the Zambezi river.
The Chirundu-Harare Highway is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link Nr 22) as well as the Trans-African Highway Nr 9 (Beira-Lobito Highway). On the Zambian side the highway continues north as T2 Highway, through Zambia's Capital City , to Tunduma, the border between Zambia and Tanzania.
Chirundu, Zambia is a town in the Southern Province of Zambia at the border with Zimbabwe. [ 1 ] [ better source needed ] It is the site of two road bridges across the Zambezi river, the Chirundu Bridges .
When you live Chinhoyi towards Karoi about 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) north, (that's about 136 kilometres (85 mi) from Harare and about before 251 kilometres (156 mi) from Chirundu Border Post is the Chinhoyi Caves Recreational Park, besides the road. The caves are a network of tunnels and caverns which are fascinating places to visit.
The T2 road begins from Zambia's border post with Tanzania near Tunduma as the Tanzam Highway and Great North Road. On the Tanzanian side, it is the T1 road to Iringa and Dar es Salaam. It starts by meeting the northern terminus of the M14 road (which connects to the Mafinga Hills) before passing south-west through the town centre of Nakonde. [2]
The R1 is the most direct link between the capital cities of Harare and Pretoria, and together with the R3 provide Zambia access to the Indian Ocean ports. The road carries between 1,000 and 5,000 vehicles per day, with the heavier flows in the proximity of Harare. It is therefore proper to rehabilitate this road.
The second Chirundu Bridge was built by the Kajima Corporation in 2000–2002 and opened on 12 December 2002. It is 90 metres upstream from the Otto Beit Bridge, using the same approaches and border control area. It is a two-lane, three-span continuous prestressed concrete box girder bridge, 400 meters long and 10.3 meters wide. [3]
From Chirundu, it goes south-east as the R3 highway (A1 highway) to the city of Harare (Zimbabwe's Capital City), where it becomes the R5 highway (A3 highway) south-east to the city of Mutare, where it passes through various suburbs using various roads and crosses the Machipanda Border Post into the Republic of Mozambique and the border town of ...