Figure 1
The map shows a two-panel layout with a large regional map on the left and a smaller inset map on the right connected by two straight diagonal connector lines. The left panel displays southern Africa with country labels including “ANGOLA”, “ZAMBIA”, “ZIMBABWE”, “NAMIBIA”, “BOTSWANA”, “SOUTH AFRICA”, “ESWATINI”, and “MOZAMBIQUE”, along with city labels such as “Lusaka”, “Harare”, “Windhoek”, “Gaborone”, “Johannesburg”, “Durban”, and “Maputo”. Mozambique is subdivided into provinces shown in multiple pastel colors including light blue, light green, light pink, and light purple. The country “Malawi” is distinctly highlighted in dark green and labeled “Malawi”. A north arrow compass icon in black with directions “N”, “E”, “S”, and “W” appears in the upper left of the left panel. The coastline of Mozambique is shown in blue along the “Mozambique Channel”. The right panel inset shows a zoomed area labeled “MOSSURIL” outlined with a bold black boundary, with surrounding land in light beige and coastal water in blue. Road labels “E N 1” and “E N 12” are shown in orange lines. At the bottom right, a legend titled “Legend” includes a white box with black outline for “Mossuril District” and a green box for “Malawi”, followed by “Mozambique Provinces” with color-coded entries including light blue for “Manica”, light green for “Maputo Cidade”, pale yellow for “Maputo Provincia”, light purple for “Nampula”, light pink for “Niassa”, pale blue for “Sofala”, light green for “Tete”, and light pink for “Zambezia”, along with “Cabo Delgado”, “Gaza”, and “Inhambane”. A scale bar below the legend shows “0”, “20”, “40”, and “80 Kilometers”. Source text appears at the bottom center including “Esri, Michael Bauer Research GmbH 2025, National Statistical Office of Malawi” and additional sources.Map of Mossuril District in Nampula Province, Mozambique. Source: (Author, adapted from Esri, Michael Bauer Research GmbH (2026); National Statistical Office of Malawi; Instituto Nacional de Estatística; USGS)