Matobo National Park
（重定向自Matopos）
![](/Images/godic/202501/26/Sunrise_Matobo_Zimbabwe1557.jpg")
![White rhino and calf in the game park, Matobo National Park](/Images/godic/202501/26/White_Rhino_Mother_and_Juvenile_in_Matopos_National_Park1557.jpg")
![Mother and Child Kopje in the game park, Matobo National Park](/Images/godic/202501/26/Motherandchild_Matobo1557.jpg")
![Mt Effefe ca. 1900.](/Images/godic/202501/26/Mt_effefe_matopos_ca19001557.jpg")
The Matobo National Park forms the core of the Matobo or Matopos Hills, an area of granite kopjes and wooded valleys commencing some 35 kilometres south of Bulawayo, southern Zimbabwe. The hills were formed over 2 billion years ago with granite being forced to the surface, this has eroded to produce smooth "whaleback dwalas" and broken kopjes, strewn with boulders and interspersed with thickets of vegetation. Mzilikazi, founder of the Ndebele nation, gave the area its name, meaning 'Bald Heads'.