Kapachira Falls
Kapachira Falls are waterfalls in Malawi. They lie on the lower Shire River near the town of Chikwawa and the Majete Wildlife Reserve. The Kapichira Hydroelectric Power Station was constructed above the falls to provide hydroelectricty.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Stonyyy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Waterfall
- Description: waterfalls in Malawi
- Also known as: “Kapichira Falls”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kapichira Hydroelectric Power Station.
Kapichira Hydroelectric Power Station
Power station
Photo: Stonyyy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kapichira Power Station is a hydroelectric power plant at the Kapachira Falls on the Shire River in Malawi. It has an installed capacity of 128 megawatts, enough to power over 86,000 homes, with four 32 megawatts generating sets.
Kapachira Falls
- Category: body of water
- Location: Southern Malawi, Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-15.89715° or 15° 53′ 50″ southLongitude
34.75181° or 34° 45′ 7″ eastElevation
100 metres (328 feet)Open location code
5GPP4Q32+4POpenStreetMap ID
node 276361532OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfall
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Tamil—“Kapachira Falls” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kapichira-waterval”
- Cebuano: “Kapichira Falls”
- German: “Kapichira-Wasserfälle”
- Persian: “آبشار کاپاچیرا”
- Swedish: “Kapichira Falls”
- Tamil: “கபச்சிரா அருவி”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include African Parks Administration office and Thawale Lodge Boat Mooring.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kapachira Falls”. Photo: Stonyyy, CC BY-SA 3.0.