Marine ecoregion on the eastern coast of southern Africa
Delagoa
Sponges at Pao Reef, Guinjata Bay, Mozambique
Ecology
Realm
Western Indo-Pacific
Province
Western Indian Ocean
Borders (marine)
Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast, Natal
Borders (mangrove)
Southern Africa mangroves
Geography
Countries
Mozambique
South Africa
Province
Inhambane
Gaza
Maputo (Mozambique)
KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Oceans or seas
Indian Ocean
Physical features
Bazaruto Archipelago, Maputo Bay, Lake St. Lucia
Currents
Agulhas Current
Delagoa is a marine ecoregion along the eastern coast of Africa. It extends along the coast of Mozambique and South Africa from the Bazaruto Archipelago (21°14’ S) to Lake St. Lucia in South Africa (28° 10' S) in South Africa's Kwazulu-Natal province.[1] It adjoins the Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast ecoregion to the north, and the Natal ecoregion to the south.[2] It has Africa's southernmost tropical coral reefs and mangrove forests. It is the southernmost Indo-Pacific ecoregion, marking the transition from the tropical Indo-Pacific to Temperate Southern Africa.
^Pereira, Marcos & Litulo, Carlos & Santos, Rodrigo & Costa Leal, Miguel & Fernandes, Raquel & Tibirica, Yara & Williams, Jess & Atanassov, Boris & Carreira, Filipa & Massingue, Alice & Marques da Silva, Isabel. (2014). Mozambique marine ecosystems review. 10.13140/2.1.2092.5766.
^Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson et al. "Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas". Bioscience Vol. 57 No. 7, July/August 2007, pp. 573-583.
Delagoa is a marine ecoregion along the eastern coast of Africa. It extends along the coast of Mozambique and South Africa from the Bazaruto Archipelago...
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that the Tembe and Rhonga people, who were the first to arrive at the Delagoa Bay and around the Natal Bay, transitioned the Rhonga "Rh" into the Zulu...
Tembe Rivers) was sourced from a lake (hence its outlet became known as Delagoa Bay). As a result, several old maps depict the Zambezi and the "Espirito...
Lydenburg became important because it was on the wagon route to the port of Delagoa Bay (now Maputo Bay) which was not under British control. In 1871 construction...
present-day Zambia and Angola. Others reached the Portuguese colony of Delagoa Bay, later called Lourenço Marques and subsequently Maputo – the capital...
was a Southern African state that arose in the 18th century south of Delagoa Bay and inland in eastern southern Africa. "Mthethwa" means "the one who...
Andries Hendrik Potgieter Potgieter at Delagoa Bay in 1852 Born (1792-12-19)19 December 1792 Graaff-Reinet district Died 16 December 1852(1852-12-16)...
1848 and from 1850 to 1866. Banquibazar, 1719-1723 Cabelon, 1744-1750 Delagoa Bay, 1777-1781 Nicobar islands, 1778–1783 The following were German African...
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settlement had run out of medicine and fresh supplies had to be bought in Delagoa Bay. Isaacs wrote "... when John Ross Lieutenant King's apprentice, a lad...
Tregardt's party that had set up around Soutpansberg moved on to colonise Delagoa Bay, with most of the party, including Tregardt, perishing from fever.: 163 ...
Asian regions such as Java. A slave-trading station was established in Delagoa Bay (present-day Maputo) in 1721 but was abandoned in 1731. Between 1731...
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