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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.
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 .
The Chirundu-Harare Highway which is a regional road corridor is designated as the R3 Highway and the A1 Highway on Zimbabwe's Road Network. It runs generally in a south-easterly direction from Chirundu Border Post to Harare, a distance of 348 kilometres (216 mi).
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]
Before 2012, Chirundu was part of Siavonga District in the Southern Province of Zambia.Then, President Michael Sata decided in 2012 to create the Chirundu District (which consequentially led to the Chirundu Constituency being created for the next general election), effectively declaring that Chirundu will have its own town council administration (no-longer under Siavonga).
Zambia will reopen its border with Democratic Republic of Congo after sealing it at the weekend due to protests, blocking a key export route for the world's second largest copper producer, the two ...
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]