Kariyangwe
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Kariyangwe is a settlement in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe and is located about 60 km south of Binga village. The settlement grew up around the Kariyangwe Mission, the first to be set up by Spanish missionaries that arrived in the country in 1949. The people are Matonga. Originally, the people lived at the bank of the river Zambezi. When the Kariba Dam was built in the 1950s, people were resettled to the current region.
As of 2019, in the area of Kariynagwe there live about 10,000 people. It has a mission hospital operated by sisters without a permanent medical doctor available. The hospital has two off-grid photovoltaic systems to ensure basic electric supply. Education is provided by primary and secondary school. A more or less regular bus is connecting Kariynagwe to Binga and Hwange.
Since May 2018 there is no public electric power supply. About 2 km of copper cable were stolen and not replaced up to now (2019).
The area has an irrigation scheme which gets its water supply from the Lungwalaala Dam.
