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Canned Hippo Valley fruit was exported across southern Africa until the 1970s. [1] In the wake of the sugar market crash in 1975, the estate initiated irrigation programs to water its sugar plantations. [1] Today, it is the major producer of sugar and in conjunction with Triangle Estate, has a fifty:fifty holding in nearby Mkwasine Estate. [1]
The dam was built by International Construction Zimbabwe (ICZ), a division of the southern African construction giant Murray and Roberts, and was completed in 1988. [4] The dam is located in the Mwenwezi River Valley in the middle section of the river. The area is flat and dry and semi-arid with countless dome-shaped mountains and kopjes in ...
Bangala Dam lies in south-eastern Zimbabwe, south of Masvingo. It was built by Concor to provide irrigation water to the farming estates on the lowveld to the southwest, around the town of Triangle, where the main crop has been sugar cane. [1] The lake and environs are protected as Bangala Dam Recreational Park.
Ngondoma Irrigation Scheme draws water from Ngondoma Dam, which has an estimated capacity of 7.5 million cubic metres. It is the 40th of the 41 recorded by FAO as Major Dams in Zimbabwe. [3] Ngongoma Irrigation Scheme has a gravity fed surface irrigation system. [1]
Apart from providing water for the city, Lake Mutirikwi supports water supply schemes for several riparian farmers and large sugar cane irrigation schemes in the Triangle, Zimbabwe and Hippo Valley areas. The storage capacity of the lake, which was completed in 1960, is 1,378 million cubic metres (48.7 billion cubic feet).
Further south, the Honde provides water for communal irrigation in an otherwise dry area. [3] The 500 square kilometres (190 sq mi) of the Honde Valley in Zimbabwe are extensively cultivated, often with gravity fed irrigation channels. Extensive use is made of the many smaller tributaries feeding into the river in this portion of the Honde Valley.
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2009) Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The following is a partial list of dams in Zimbabwe. List of dams (reservoirs) Name (alt.) Nearest local Province Impounds Year completed (commissioned) Capacity (MegaL) Map ...
The Mazowe Dam (or Mazoe Dam) is a dam on the Mazowe River in Zimbabwe, in the Iron Mask Hills about 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Harare.Constructed in 1920, it was built mainly to provide irrigation for the Mazoe citrus estates. [1]