Dorowa
Dorowa is a village in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe located 3 km south of the Save River in the Upper Save valley about 90 km west of Mutare. The village grew up around the opencast Dorowa Mine where phosphate was discovered in 1945.- Type: Village with 1,680 residents
- Description: human settlement in Zimbabwe
- Also known as: “Dorowa Claims”
Dorowa
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Manicaland, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-19.05324° or 19° 3′ 12″ southLongitude
31.78166° or 31° 46′ 54″ eastPopulation
1,680Elevation
916 metres (3,005 feet)Open location code
5GGHWQWJ+PMOpenStreetMap ID
node 5222358813OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
892156Wikidata ID
Q5298711
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Tswana—“Dorowa” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Dorowa”
- Cebuano: “Dorowa Mining Lease”
- Dutch: “Dorowa”
- Irish: “Dorowa”
- Swahili: “Dorowa”
- Tswana: “Dorowa”
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