quadrangular tower with balcony, external stairs and light[2][3]
Markings
white
Operator
Instituto Marítimo e Portuário de Angola
Focal height
110 m (360 ft)
Range
9 nmi (17 km; 10 mi)
Characteristic
Oc(2) W 6s
Angola no.
PT-5272[3]
Porto Amboim is a port town in Cuanza Sul Province, Angola with a population of 65,000; it comprises an area of 4,638 km2. In the past Porto Amboim was connected by an isolated 123 km 610 mm (2 ft) narrow gauge railway to Gabela, albeit closed in 1987 due to the civil war and to the abandonment of most coffee plantations, the biggest source of revenue from Gabela. Originally Porto Amboim was known as Kissonde, a small village later colonized in 1587 by the Portuguese naming it Benguela and later Benguela Velha (Old Benguela) due to the creation of another village today known as Benguela located 350 km south of Benguela Velha. In 1923, the name was changed to Porto Amboim.
Today (2014) Porto Amboim is one of the growing areas for the offshore industry. The pre-salt in front of the coast of Angola, with Porto Amboim in the centre is a planned development area. With companies as Paenal, a joint venture between Sonangol, SBM and DSME and Heerema Porto Amboim, the two major offshore fabrication yards, Porto Amboim is developing.
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^List of Lights, Pub. 113: The West Coasts of Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and Azovskoye More (Sea of Azov)(PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2016.
^ abRowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Angola". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
PortoAmboim is a port town in Cuanza Sul Province, Angola with a population of 65,000; it comprises an area of 4,638 km2. In the past PortoAmboim was...
PortoAmboim Airport (IATA: PBN, ICAO: FNPA) is an airport serving PortoAmboim, a coastal city in Cuanza Sul Province, Angola. The PortoAmboim non-directional...
after it was decolonized and gained independence. Santos was born in PortoAmboim, in the province of Cuanza Sul on 5 May 1940. Santos studied at the University...
June 1973) was an Angolan poet and politician, who was born in Kikuvo, PortoAmboim, Portuguese Angola, and died in Beijing, People's Republic of China....
Caparica Laranjeiro e Feijó Almada is twinned with: Ostrava, Czech Republic PortoAmboim, Angola Regla, Cuba Sal, Cape Verde The 25 de Abril Bridge links Lisbon...
Ebo in the south, and in the west by the municipality of Gabela and by PortoAmboim. The novelist Chó do Guri was born in Quibala in 1959. "Weather in Quibala...
coffee plantations on Amboim plateau, in 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) narrow gauge, and linked PortoAmboim with Gabela. PortoAmboim is on the coast between...
original (PDF) on 2012-01-13. Retrieved 2009-07-10. Associação Porto Digital. "C.M. Porto". Cm-porto.pt. Archived from the original on 2011-05-15. Retrieved...
128 Million years. Luanda (São Paulo de Loanda) – port – railhead Amboim (PortoAmboim) Bailundo (Vila Teixeira da Silva) Benguela (São Felipe de Benguella)...
officially called São Paulo de Luanda. Other cities and towns were: PortoAmboim Vila Teixeira da Silva São Felipe de Benguela Vila Robert Williams Duque...
de Angola: do período pré-colonial à independência" (PDF). University of Porto (in Portuguese). Retrieved 16 December 2021. "Geographic coordinates of...
but a few bases in Asia. Luanda, Benguela, Bissau, Lourenço Marques, PortoAmboim and the Island of Mozambique were among the oldest Portuguese-founded...
itself was PortoAmboim. To slow the SADF's advance, Cuban sappers had destroyed all the bridges over the Cuvo River south of PortoAmboim. Undeterred...
terminals. Port of Durres Port of Algiers Port of Djen Djen Port of Amboim (PortoAmboim) Port of Cabinda Port of Lobito Port of Luanda Port of Namibe Port...
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