Geography of Mozambique

Raw data

Main cities:

  • Maputo (capital)
  • Angoche
  • Beira
  • Pemba

maritime Claims:

Climate: tropical with subtropical.

Relief: flat coastal, higher altitude in the center, high plateaus in the North-West, mountainous in the west.

Natural resources: coal, Titanium, Natural gas, hydraulic power, tantalum, Graphite.

Exploitation of the ground:

  • cultivated grounds: 5,43% (are. 2005)
  • permanent crops: 0,29% (are. 2005)
  • irrigated grounds: 1 ' 180 km (is. 1993)

Natural disasters: Dryness, Cyclone S and Flood S in the center and the south.

environmental Problems: Turning into a desert, coastal water pollution, Poaching; a long civil war and recurring drynesses inside the grounds caused important shifts in population towards the cities and the coastal regions.

International treaties on the environment:

  • left with: biodiversity, climate changes, turning into a desert, species in danger, right of the sea, protection of the layer of ozone.

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