Mulobezi Explained

Official Name:Mulobezi
Pushpin Map:Zambia
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Zambia
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Zambia
Subdivision Type1:Admin. division
Subdivision Name1:Southern Province
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Coordinates:-16.7822°N 25.1728°W
Elevation M:976
Blank Name:Climate
Blank Info:Cwa

Mulobezi is a small town in the Western Province of Zambia, and the centre of its timber industry. Timber extends into Southern Province with which the town is economically linked.

Extensive forests of Zambian Teak grow on the sandy soils of the southwest part of Southern Province and the southeast part of Western Province. To extract the timber, the Mulobezi Railway was built from Livingstone in the 1920s, and once extended beyond Mulobezi to the northwest. Today, commercially viable stocks of the slow-growing teak trees are virtually used up and the timber industry is a shadow of its former self.

Transport

The railway still operates a weekly service from Livingstone with Mulobezi as the terminus.

See also