Portal:Zimbabwe/Featured article/January 2008
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Mutare (known as Umtali until 1982) is the fourth largest city in Zimbabwe, with a population of approximately 189,000. It is the capital of Manicaland province. It is located at . Mutare was founded in 1897 as a fort, about 8 km from the border with Mozambique, and is just 290 kilometres from the Mozambican port of Beira, earning Mutare the title of "Zimbabwe's Gateway to the Sea".
Sometimes also called "Gateway to the Eastern Highlands".
A border railway station on the railway line from Harare to Beira (Mozambique) with a railways mechanical work shop.
The view from the top of Christmas Pass down onto Mutare is breathtaking.
The town lies north of the Bvumba Mountains and south of the Imbeza Valley. It is home to the Mutare Museum, the Utopia House Museum dedicated to Kingsley Fairbridge, the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Murahwa Hill, known for its rock paintings and Iron Age village, Cross Kopje with a memorial to Zimbabweans and Mozambiqueans killed in World War I and a nature reserve. It is also home to the Africa University, a pan-African university of about 1,200 students.
