Mutasa District
| Mutasa | |
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| Coordinates: 18°35′S 32°45′E / 18.583°S 32.750°ECoordinates: 18°35′S 32°45′E / 18.583°S 32.750°E | |
| Country | Zimbabwe |
| Province | Manicaland |
| District | Mutasa |
| Government | |
| • MP For Mutasa Central | Trevor Saruwaka |
| • MP For Mutasa North | David Anthony Chimhini |
| • MP For Mutasa South | Misheck Kagurabadza |
| Elevation | 912 m (2,992 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 167,462 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+2) |
Mutasa District is one of seven districts in the Manicaland province of Zimbabwe. Mutasa district is located 30 km from Mutare and stretches up to the Honde Valley, which is about 100 km northeast of Mutare along a tarred road that branches off the Nyanga road.
Population in Mutasa stands at about 169,000 as of the last census held in 2012.
Mutasa district is located 30 km from Mutare and stretches up to the Honde Valley, which is about 100 km northeast of Mutare along a tarred road that branches off the Nyanga road.
Mutasa District economy has agro-based. Villagers practice semi-commercial agriculture. And the district has several plantations and estates that provide employment. Villages raise cattle, goats and chicken. And they grow maize, groundnuts, sugarcane etc. and have plantations for fruit trees in the fields. Some of the villages are small holder growers of coffee, tea and banana plantations. Large scale commercial plantations produces timber, coffee and tea estates.
Compared with other district in Manicaland Province, Mutasa District has better infrastructure.
Christianity dominates in Mutasa .Most people are Catholics (Anglicans, Methodists and Roman Catholics) African Apostolic Church AAC known as vekwa (Mwazha) large group also is a follower of the Johanne Marange Apostolic Sect .Traditional beliefs are also still dominant although people are now practising this side by side with Christianity.
The district is serviced by a network of surfaced and gravel roads. The main highways are the Mutare–Nyanga A15 highway and the Selbourne to Honde Valley road. During the rainy season some parts of the district are inaccessible by road due to the bad state of roads. The district council does not have the capacity to maintain gravel roads, hence the District Development Fund(DDF) is now maintaining most of the gravel roads. In Honde Valley some areas are only accessible only by four-wheel-drive enabled vehicles due to the terrain.
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