Darwendale

Darwendale is a small town in the southern part of Zvimba District in Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe, standing on the Gwebi River about 62 kilometres west of Harare. Its 1982 census count was 3,264 people. The settlement grew from a farm that Otto Christian Zimmerman pegged out in the 1890s to grow tobacco, and the area long served as a tobacco producing node. Today it is mostly visited for fishing at Darwendale Dam, a reservoir known for largemouth bass, where in July 2004 a catch was recorded as the largest outside the United States and Mexico. The town is described as one of the faster growing centres in Zimbabwe.