Ancuase

Ancuase lies beside the lower Zambezi, upstream of Sena. The river spreads around islands here, its channels changing with the seasons. On its northern bank lived Maganja communities of the Maravi tradition, while the wider valley was home to free cultivators and enslaved people. The lands of Ancuase later formed one of the prazos, estates that grew along the Zambezi under Portuguese claims and local authority.