Mount Darwin or Karanda is a town in Mashonaland Central

Mashonaland Central

Mashonaland Central is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 28,347 km² and a population of approximately 998,265 , representing about 8.5% of the total Zimbabwe population.- Background :Bindura is the capital of the province...

 province in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

. It is named after the biologist Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...

. It is located 156 kilometres north of Harare

Harare

Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...

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History

Mount Darwin is the probable site of some of the earliest European missionary work in southern Africa, by the Portuguese Jesuit Gonçalo da Silveira

Gonçalo da Silveira

Gonçalo da Silveira was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary in southern Africa.-Life:Gonçalo da Silveira was born at Almeirim, Portugal, about from Lisbon. He was the tenth child of Dom Luís da Silveira, first count of Sortelha, and Dona Beatriz Coutinho, daughter of Dom Fernando Coutinho, Marshal of...

, who arrived in 1560 and was killed in March 1561 near Mount Darwin following a souring of relations with the local chief. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10489a.htm

Karanda

Karanda Mission Hospital is literally the lifeblood of the town. Karanda provides care not only for the local region, but for Harare as well. Two American surgeons perform about 3000 surgeries annually. Overall the hospital sees nearly 90,000 patients a year. http://www.teamzimmoz.org/kmh.html

Notable residents

• Joice Mujuru, Politician (birthplace)
• James Makamba, Businessman (Home area)
• Savior Kasukuwere
  Savior Kasukuwere
  -Politics:He has been a member of the Pan-African Parliament, since 2004. He is the Deputy Secretary of Youth Affairs in the Politburo of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. He has been the Member of Parliament for Mount Darwin South Parliamentary Constituency since 2000...
  
  , Politician and Businessman (birthplace)

External links

• Karanda Mission Hospital