Katete
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Katete is a small town in the Eastern Province of Zambia, and is headquarters of an administrative district of the same name. The town is at the foot of rocky hills which lie to its east, including Mpangwe Hill and Kangarema Hill, which rise to 1600 m and are surrounded by cultivated fields. It lies on the Great East Road about 90 km south-west of the provincial capital, Chipata at an elevation of 1060 m on the watershed between the middle Luangwa River and the Zambezi. In the town is a major road junction, with a surfaced road branching off and running 50 km to the Mozambique border and connecting with Tete on the Zambezi 339 km to the south-east.
[edit] Katete District
Katete District includes woodland in the north sloping down into the Luangwa Valley, good farmland amid rocky hills in the centre, and deforested plateau exposed to soil erosion and degradation in the south along the border with Mozambique.
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- General references
- Google Earth
- Terracarta/International Travel Maps, Vancouver Canada: "Zambia, 2nd edition", 2000
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