The
Kingdom of Mutapa - sometimes referred to as the
Mutapa Empire (
Shona:
Mwene we Mutapa or more commonly and modern "Munhumutapa"; ) - was a
Shona kingdom which stretched from the
Zambezi through the
Limpopo rivers to the Indian Ocean in
southern Africa, in what are the modern states of
Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland,
Mozambique and parts of Namibia and Botswana; stretching well into modern
Zambia. Its founders are descendants of the builders who constructed
Great Zimbabwe.