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The territory of Zimbabwe can be divided into three areas in relation to the altitude: Highveld, over 1400 m, which occupies much of central area of the country; and the Midveld, between 700 and 1400 m, extended mainly to the north-west and south-east; and the Lowveld, which includes the regions of the valleys of the Zambezi to the north and Limpopo to the south. The highest peaks of the country, the Inyanga Mountains, located north-east (the highest mountain is Inyangani, 2592 m) along the border with Mozambique, to the north rises the chain of Mavuradonha mountains (1,733 m), while to the south-west are the Matopo Mountains (1549 m). Several peaks exceeding 1,500 m in the range of the Highveld, like Mtoro (1,583 m), south-east of Harare, and Mquilembegwe (1,545 m), south-east of Bulawayo. The main river is the country is the Zambezi that feeds the hydroelectric Kariba Basin and that forms Victoria Falls along the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, a 122 m high waterfalls with a spectacular front of about 1600 meters. Other important rivers are the Limpopo and Sabi. 

The subsoil is rich in gold, chrome, coal, copper, iron, asbestos, phosphate, tin, antimony, diamond deposits are numerous throughout the country. Important is also the breeding of animals (cattle, goats, sheep). In the country grow corn, wheat, citrus, sugar cane, batate, cassava, peanuts, cotton and tobacco. The processing industry operates in the steel, metal, mechanical, food, textile, tobacco, chemicals.