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Kariba Gorge is a large, natural gorge through which flowed the Zambezi River on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, Africa. In 1959 the large double arch concrete Kariba Dam was completed, completely filling the gorge and creating the largest man-made lake in the world. Lake Kariba was filled between 1958 and 1963 following the completion of the Kariba Dam at its northeastern end, flooding the Kariba Gorge on the Zambezi River and displacing large numbers of wildlife and the local Tonga people.
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Binga is a district on the south eastern shore of Lake Kariba in the province of Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. Binga was built to rehouse the BaTonga people whose homelands were flooded when Lake Kariba was created. The district is one of the forgotten despite its leading treasures in tourism and wildlife resources in the country. Tourist attractions feature the general Zambezi River viewing, "The only sand beach in Zimbabwe", Hot springs, fishing, crocodile farm, game reserves, Chijalile Pass, Swamps in the Simatelele Ward area, several stunning gorges, natural rock outcrops to mention but a few. People in the district are not as poor and uneducated as heard of to the country. Roads are poor of course, farmland is limited but vegetation is still in its best condition when compared to most districts in the country. There are also coal, gas and oil deposits along the Muchesu Area hills.
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- 1 2 3 "Kariba Constituency Profile" (PDF). Pariliament of Zimbabwe. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ↑ Save the Children. "Household Economy Assessment: Nyaminyami (Kariba Rural) District, 21 June 2002". Southern Africa Regional Poverty Network. SARPN. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ↑ Jeke, Leward (2 September 2014). "Human-Wildlife Coexistence In Omay Communal Land, Nyaminyami Rural District Council In Zimbabwe". Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences. 5 (20): 809. ISSN 2039-2117 . Retrieved 21 February 2015.
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