Mount Tumbine

Mount Tumbine
Mount Tumbine
Location of Mount Tumbine in Mozambique
Highest point
Elevation1,542 m (5,059 ft)
Coordinates16°04′59″S 35°48′33″E / 16.08306°S 35.80917°E / -16.08306; 35.80917
Geography
LocationMozambique

Mount Tumbine is a mountain in Milange District of Zambézia Province in northern Mozambique, immediately east of the town of Milange.

The Ruo River, which forms the border between Mozambique and Malawi, runs north of the mountain, separating it from the larger Mulanje Massif in Malawi. It is surrounded by plains on the east, south, and west.

The mountain consists of a nearly circular intrusion of syenite, 8 km in diameter.[1]

References

  1. ^ Woolley, Alan Robert (1987). Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World: Africa. Geological Society of London, 1987. p. 194.