Mangochi District

Location of Mangochi District in Malawi The Mangochi District is a district in Malawi. It is bordered by Mozambique to the east and north Salima to the north. To the west, it is bordered by Dedza. Traveling south, the road climbs up the Machinga escarpment to Zomba, the former colonial capital of Nyasaland, and from there to Malawi's commercial hub of Blantyre (named after David Livingstone's hometown near Glasgow). It is fiercely hot in summer and ambient in winter. It is on the flood-plain for Lake Malawi (formerly Lake Nyassa). The lake is the third largest and most southerly in the Rift Valley lake system (the others being Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika), and is unofficially known as the Lake of Stars. The lake was named by David Livingston as he discovered it on September 18, 1859, for the effect of the reflection of the sun on the water's surface. It is also known as the Calendar Lake as it is approx 365 miles (587 km) long and 52 wide.

There are beautiful fish - cichlids and fish eagles. a member of the same genus as the American bald eagle. Most of the indigenous people of Mangochi are the Yao people.