Metangula
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Metangula is a small town in on the shores of Lake Niassa, 150 kilometers from the provincial capital of Lichinga
in Niassa Province
, Mozambique
. A few kilometers north of Metangula lies the beautiful sand beach of Chuanga. Main agricultural crops from the area are cassava (mandioca) and Vigna
beans (feijāo nhemba).
Lichinga
Lichinga is the capital city of Niassa Province of Mozambique. It lies on the Lichinga Plateau at an altitude of 1360 metre, east of Lake Niassa . The town was founded as Vila Cabral as a farming and military settlement...
in Niassa Province
Niassa Province
Niassa is a province of Mozambique. It has an area of 129,056 km² and a population of 1.027.037 . It is the most sparsely populated province in the country. Lichinga is the capital of the province. There are a minimum estimated 450,000 Yao people living in Mozambique...
, Mozambique
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
. A few kilometers north of Metangula lies the beautiful sand beach of Chuanga. Main agricultural crops from the area are cassava (mandioca) and Vigna
Vigna
The genus Vigna is in the plant family Fabaceae. The genus is named after Domenico Vigna, an Italian botanist of the 17th century. They include some well-known and other less well-known beans formerly — and sometimes still, especially in non-scholarly sources — included in the genus Phaseolus...
beans (feijāo nhemba).