Maputo Bay (Portuguese: Baía de Maputo), formerly also known as Delagoa Bay from Baía da Lagoa in Portuguese, is an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Mozambique, between 25° 40' and 26° 20' S, with a length from north to south of over 90 km long and 32 km wide.[1][2]
^"Baía de Maputo". Mapcarta. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
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MaputoBay (Portuguese: Baía de Maputo), formerly also known as Delagoa Bay from Baía da Lagoa in Portuguese, is an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast...
distinctive, eclectic architecture. Maputo was formerly named Lourenço Marques until 1976. Maputo is situated on a large natural bay on the Indian Ocean, near where...
northwest. The MaputoBay area to the southeast of Maputo is an important conservation area with many reefs and lakes. Of particular note is the Maputo Elephant...
allied both powers in the Anglo-Austrian Alliance. MaputoBay, formerly also known as Delagoa Bay from Baía da Lagoa in Portuguese, is an inlet of the...
Maputo, also called the Maputo-Matola port complex, is a Mozambican port located in the cities of Maputo and Matola. They are installed in MaputoBay...
enter MaputoBay. Two other major rivers empty into MaputoBay, namely the Komati or Incomati River from the north, and the Great Usutu or Maputo River...
Maputo River The Maputo River (Portuguese Rio Maputo), also called Great Usutu River, Lusutfu River, or Suthu River, is a river in South Africa, Eswatini...
back some 1000 years. Kosi Bay and MaputoBay can be considered one land-area, traditionally belonging to the Africans. Kosi Bay was also known as Tembeland...
The history of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, traces its origins back over 500 years, when a fishing village developed by MaputoBay on the site where...
the Mozambican coast. Lourenço Marques explored the area that is now MaputoBay in 1544. The Portuguese increased efforts for occupying the interior of...
Catembe is an urban center in Mozambique. Located on the MaputoBay, it is a suburb of Maputo, the national capital. The name also applies to the administrative...
St Lucia bay and MaputoBay are one land and they belong to the Tsonga people, Tsonga villages were built from St Lucia bay until Maputo and they were...
lives in the interior. The 52 km2 (20 sq mi) island separates MaputoBay (Baía de Maputo) to the west from the Indian Ocean off its eastern shores. The...
Bazaruto Island, but they have become rare in historical habitats such as in MaputoBay and on Inhaca Island. The Bazaruto Island population is possibly the last...
indentation of MaputoBay (formerly Delagoa Bay). The land then turns outward to Cape Correntes, a little north of which is Inhambane Bay. Bending westward...
Inhaca Island, in the Maputo Province in Mozambique. It is located across MaputoBay from the country's capital city of Maputo. The airport resides at...
important because it was on the wagon route to the port of Delagoa Bay (now MaputoBay) which was not under British control. In 1871 construction of the...
Mozambique capital, Maputo, adjacent to its westernmost side. It is the nation's most populated city. Matola is the capital of Maputo Province and has had...
pattern increased as they connected to the Portuguese trading post in MaputoBay. In this era, groups that would become the Swazi, Pedi, Ndebele, Mapulana...
Protected Area stretching from Ponta do Ouro in the south to the Maputo River Mouth in MaputoBay in the north (including the Inhaca and Portuguese islands)...
in March 1721 as a naval support point at MaputoBay near the current nation of Mozambique's capital of Maputo. It was subordinate to the Dutch Cape colony...
Fringing reefs are also found at Inhaca and Portuguese Islands near MaputoBay. The southernmost reef corals are found on the northern coast of Kwazulu-Natal...
surgeon and zoologist, in 1849, who reported it from Natal and east to MaputoBay. The specific name angusticeps is derived from the Latin word angustus...
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