[2] Key urban settlements include Buhera (district capital), Murambinda town, Birchenough Bridge and Dorowa mine.

The main crops are: maize, millet (mhunga), roundnuts (nyimo) and groundnuts (nzungu).

Although the rains are not very reliable, the area is fertile with several irrigation schemes for the populace to supplement their meager harvests.

The Hera are of the Manyika tribe and claim that they came from Guruuswa, which has been identified as an area north of the Zambezi River, perhaps around Uganda or South Sudan.

Chiurwi Mountain was a major staging point for ZANLA liberation forces, during the Second Chimurenga War (1966 - 1979).

[5] The majority of the district residents are subsistence farmers, through a communal land system administered by the local chiefs.