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The Lebombo Mountains, also called Lubombo Mountains (Portuguese: Montes Libombos), are an 800 km-long (500 mi), narrow range of mountains in Southern Africa. They stretch from Hluhluwe in KwaZulu-Natal in the south to Punda Maria in the Limpopo Province in South Africa in the north. Parts of the mountain range are also found in Mozambique and ...
The Lebombo bone is a bone tool made of a baboon fibula with incised markings discovered in Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains located between South Africa and Eswatini. [1]
Border Cave is an archaeological site located in the western Lebombo Mountains in Kwazulu-Natal. The rock shelter has one of the longest archaeological records in southern Africa, which spans from the Middle Stone Age to the Iron Age. [1] Border Cave Excavations. The west-facing cave is located about 100 m below the crest of the Lebombo ...
Hlathikulu Forest is a coastal scarp forest in the Lebombo Mountains of South Africa, between Ingwavuma and the Pongola Gorge. The forest is also known as the Gwaliweni Forest. The forest is part of the IUCN's Maputaland Centre of Plant Endemism [1]: vi
Lebombo may refer to: Lebombo bone, an ancient tally stick; Lebombo flat lizard; Lebombo Mountains, Southern Africa Lebombo monocline, a geological feature of these mountains; see Explora Escarpment; Androstachys johnsonii, also known as Lebombo ironwood; Diocese of Lebombo
The Lebombo bone, which is from the Swaziland and South African mountain region and may be the oldest known mathematical artifact, [15] consists of 29 distinct notches that were deliberately cut into a baboon's fibula and has been dated to 35,000 BCE. [16] [17]
Amatongaland, or Tongaland, was an independent kingdom of Tsonga people, located in the far north of what would become the Natal colony, bordered on the west by the Lebombo Mountains. [1] The country is a continuation of the lowlands of northern Zululand , not rising above 300 ft. [2] The district comprised 1280 mi 2 (2060 km 2).
Ingwavuma is located on top of a mountain in the Lebombo mountain range with several caves in its vicinity. To the west it overlooks the plains of Eswatini. East the hills drop towards the Maputaland while the Lebombo mountain range continues north towards Mozambique and south towards Jozini.