Ras Mkumbuu

Ras Mkumbuu lies at the end of a long peninsula on the western shore of Pemba. Here stood a Swahili settlement whose remains include a large mosque, wells, house foundations and elaborate pillar tombs. Archaeological evidence shows occupation in the tenth to twelfth centuries and again from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. Its position facing the mainland placed it within the busy maritime world of the East African coast.

The later city of Chake-Chake lies here.