Victoria Falls Municipality

About Victoria Falls Municipality

Victoria Falls is a small town situated in the north-west corner of Zimbabwe and rests comfortably in the Zambezi Valley just a few hundred meters from the south bank of one of Southern Africa’s great rivers, the Zambezi which meanders through Mozambique right into the Indian Ocean. At this point of the river are the mighty, world famous Victoria Falls, on the Zimbabwe-Zambia boarder. The Victoria Falls or Mosi-Oa-Tunya (The smoke that thunders) is where the mighty Zambezi river suddenly plunges into a narrow gorge of over 100 meters deep, forming one of the world’s largest and most beautiful waterfalls with millions of gallons of water plunging over a 1,7 km-wide cliff. This is the reason why in 1980 UNESCO declared the waterfall, the rainforest and surrounding mist vegetation created by the perpetual spray, and part of the riparian system adjacent to the Falls, a World Heritage Site, at the request of both the Zimbabwean and Zambian governments. The Falls are about twice as broad and