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Mount Namuli

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Mount Namuli is the second highest mountain in Mozambique and the highest peak in Zambezia Province, rising to 2,419 meters. It was first measured, surveyed and described in 1886 by Henry Edward O'Neill, the British consul in Mozambique. The Namuli massif consists of a level plateau topped by the granite dome of Mount Namuli itself, and the area, historically covered in tropical rainforest, is recognized as an important biodiversity hotspot with many species found nowhere else. Its lower slopes are now given over largely to tea cultivation and its middle slopes to other agriculture, with the remaining indigenous forest mostly confined to the higher ground and to corridors along watercourses.

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