Mutasa Rural District Council.

Mutasa Rural District Council was previously known as Chitepo District Council has its Head Offices are situated at Mutasa District Service Centre which is fifty-eight (58) kilometers north of the City of Mutare, stretching up to Honde Valley which is about 100 km Northeast of Mutare.

It borders with Nyanga District in the north, Mozambique in the east, City of Mutare and Mutare District in the south and Makoni District in the west. Mutasa district is a predominately agro-based region were villagers practice semi-commercial agriculture growing maize, groundnuts, sugarcane and herding cattle, goats and producing poultry. Some of the villages are small-holder growers of coffee, tea and banana plantations. The district has several plantations and estates that provide employment, with large scale commercial plantations producing timber, coffee and tea estates. The council is a spoke council in the hub and spoke programme for gender mainstreaming being mentored by Buhera RDC.