Makutamazan

The Makutamazan hills lie in the dry, wooded country of the lower Gwanda gold belt. Their folded serpentine rocks rise among valleys and ridges of greenstone and banded ironstone. Farther north, the hills of Jahunda preserve paintings of people and animals, including giraffe and kudu, made by the region's hunting communities. The varied landscape was home to people long before the stone-walled centres of the Zimbabwe tradition appeared across the plateau.

The later city of Gwanda lies here.