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The Chirundu Petrified Forest is an area of fossil trees 21 km west of Chirundu, lying just south of the road from Chrundu to Kafue near the junction with the road to Siavonga. It is a listed National Monument of Zambia. [2] [3] On the Zimbabwe side the township is also called Chirundu. [4]
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).
The village on the other side of the border is also named Chirundu. Seventeen km (11 mi) before Chirundu, the T2 meets the northern terminus of the M15 road, which is the road that provides access to the tourist town of Siavonga on the Zambezi River adjacent to the Kariba Dam and a border connecting to the town of Kariba on the Zimbabwean side. [2]
Chirundu=Beitbridge Highway. Chirundu–Beitbridge Road Corridor is a Trans-African Highway Network Zimbabwean link between South Africa and Zambia. It is part of the North–South Corridor Project and forms the entire Zimbabwean section of the Cape to Cairo Road. The North-South Multimodal Transport Corridor is under the African Union PIDA ...
The R3 highway is also known as the Harare-Chirundu Highway. Its historical and popular name is the A1 Highway [ 2 ] [ 5 ] and is 354 kilometres (220 miles) long. [ 6 ] In Harare it can be picked up at the intersection of Samora Machel Avenue (A5) and Leopold Takawira Street.
The length of each border is included, as is the total length of each country's or territory's borders. [ 1 ] Countries or territories that are connected only by man-made structures such as bridges, causeways or tunnels are not considered to have land borders.
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.
Lion's Den sits on Highway A-1, the main road from Harare to Chirundu, at the International border with Zambia, about 230 kilometres (140 mi), further northwest from Lion's Den. [3] The coordinates of the town are: Latitude:-17.2700; Longitude:30.0250 (17° 16' 12.00"S, 30° 1' 30.00"E). The town sits at an altitude of 3,776 feet (1,151 m ...