Geography - Mumbai

Dharavi

Is a slam in the centre of the city by 1 million people live. People who work in textiles, pottery, embroidery and leather tanning. They work for home or in small workshops and a poorly paid. This is the informal sector. The houses are tightly packed and share water and sewage.

What is Mumbais climate like?

It has a monsoon climate, which means it is hot all year round 28 to 30° C with a lot of rain in the summer. It gets around 2000 mm of rain a year which is ever twice as much as Hereford. It is hotter because it is close to the equator 18 rather than 53° north so the suns rays are more concentrated and gets heavy rain in the summer because the warm moist Southwest trade winds blowing in of the Indian Ocean.

How is Mumbai going to change for the future?

Make a plan is to redevelop the Dharavi to improve conditions for the slum dwellers but also to make better use of one of the most valuable areas of land in Mumbai. Another plan is to redevelop the slum into retail and business area and to rehouse the slum dwellers into new high flats built on the edge of the city. Many residents don't like this as they will be far too far from jobs in the centre and won't be able to forward the transport costs.

What has caused Mumbai growth and success?

Many migrants moving in looking for jobs, for an Indian company setting up factories and call centres to take advantage of the cheaper labour, none by sport is an excellent for importing and exporting goods all over the world, it has excellent links to trade with the rest of India, and the flat land makes it ideal for building factories

Mumbai's landscape

Men by is built on flat land near the coast which used to be covered in dense rainforest, hence the leopards, monkeys, mongooses and wild boar. Part of this preserves in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park to the north of the city which has hills and lakes. Member has a long coastline made up of sandy beaches, rocky coast and mongrove swamps

Where is Mumbai?

Mumbai is a port on the west coast of India next to the Indian Ocean in the state of Maharashtra with a population of about 12.5 million. It is the largest and richest city in India, but it also has extreme poverty. It has a natural harbour making its next event location for trade.

Nariman point

Nariman point is the south of the city is banking and financial centre of India with headquarters of the Bombay stock it's strange I must of bank of India. It also has the headquarters of the tarsi group which is a massive Indian multinational making steel, cars, tea et cetera. It owns Land Rover, Jaguar and Tetley tea.