Geography of Zimbabwe Geography of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in southern Africa lying wholly within the tropics. It straddles an extensive high inland plateau that drops northwards to the Zambezi valley where the border with Zambia is and similarly drops southwards to the Limpopo valley and the border with South Africa. The country has borders with Botswana 813 km, Mozambique 1,231 km, South Africa 225 km, Zambia 797 km and almost meets Namibia at its westernmost point. The climate is markedly varied by altitude. There is a dry season, including a short cool season during the period May to September when
Honde River the closest Zimbabwe has to Jungle. Further south, the Honde river provides water for communal irrigation in an otherwise dry area. The 500 square kilometres of the Honde Valley in Zimbabwe are extensively cultivated, often with gravity fed irrigation channels. Extensive use is made of the many smaller tributaries feeding into the river in this portion of the Honde Valley. The Honde River forms part of the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border before flowing into Pungwe river which finally empties into the Indian ocean at Beira. Honde River Honde River pronounced "Horn-de" is a river in Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe which runs through