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Hot Springs, Manicaland

Thermal springs

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2024
Entity authorityQ25106077 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hot springs are located 80 km south of Mutare in Zimbabwe. It is located near Nyanyadzi and Chiyadzwa diamond fields. The water from the springs is said to have medicinal and healing properties.

The geographic coordinates are: 19°39′01″S 32°28′01″E

In 2021, the District Council of Chimanimani set priorities to complete the Hotsprings Clinic in Manicaland which will serve thousands of people who live in the surrounding area.

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The public source identifies “Hot Springs, Manicaland” as thermal springs. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Springs, Manicaland and Thermal.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Springs, Manicaland and Thermal providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q25106077. Authority coordinates are -19.650, 32.467. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hot Springs, Manicaland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.