Malawi
Southern Malawi
Mangochi District

Cape Maclear

Cape Maclear is a small fishing village on Lake Nyasa in . It has one dirt road leading into town. Along this road, there are a few hostels, some dive shops, a handful of vendors selling curios and fruit and a few bars.
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Cape Maclear

Latitude
-14.0166° or 14° 0′ 60″ south
Longitude
34.8493° or 34° 50′ 57″ east
Elevation
477 metres (1,565 feet)
Open location code
5GQPXRMX+9P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 388498041
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
931618
Wiki­data ID
Q2937250
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Tumbuka—“Cape Maclear” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cape Maclear”
  • Dutch: “Cape Maclear”
  • French: “Cape Maclear”
  • French: “Chembe”
  • German: “Cape Maclear”
  • German: “Cape MacLear”
  • Persian: “کیپ ماکلئار”
  • Spanish: “Cabo Maclear”
  • Tumbuka: “Cape Maclear, Mangochi”
  • Tumbuka: “Cape Maclear,Mangochi”
  • Tumbuka: “Cape Maclear”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Cape Maclear”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.