Kariyangwe is a settlement in Matabeleland North

Matabeleland North

Matabeleland North is a province in western Zimbabwe. It borders the provinces of Midlands and Mashonaland West to the east and northeast respectively, and the province of Matabeleland South and the city of Bulawayo to the south. Its northern border is defined by the Zambezi river, while its...

, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

 and is located about 60 km south of Binga

Binga

Binga District, now Binga North District and Binga South District, lies in the hot and arid Zambezi Encampment, the region that was once the territory of the tsetse fly.-Boundaries:Binga District is an area of land bounded by a line drawn from;...

. The settlement grew up around the Kariyangwe Mission, the first to be set up by the Spanish missionaries that arrived in the country in 1949. The people are Matonga. It has a Hospital powered by solar cells and now there is electricity.The mission has its own primary school, a kilometer away from the primary school is a High school which produces best results in the district. The area also have got an irrigation scheme which get water supply from the local dam known as Lungwalaala Dam. The irrigation is being used by the local population though it is not producing well,