Bandire

Bandire lies in the Pungwe valley, where the river runs from the eastern highlands down to the Indian Ocean. Shona communities on the highland slopes farmed millet and sorghum on terraced hillsides and traded iron and timber with people in the lowlands. Downstream, the river crosses a wide floodplain that the Portuguese traders of Sofala, at the coast near its mouth, knew as a route into the interior.