Moçâmedes
Sign in to saveMoçâmedes is a city in southwestern Angola, and the capital of Namibe Province. The city's current population is 345,987 (2024 census). Founded in 1840 by the Portuguese colonial administration, the city was named Namibe between 1985 and 2016. Moçâmedes has a cool dry climate and desert vegetation, because it is near the Namib Desert.
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Moçâmedes is a city in southwestern Angola and the capital of Namibe Province, with a population of nearly 346,000 people as of 2024. Originally founded by Portuguese colonizers in 1840, the city sits near the Namib Desert and features a cool, dry climate with sparse desert vegetation.
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- Angola
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Moçâmedes is a city in southwestern Angola, and the capital of Namibe Province. The city's current population is 345,987 (2024 census). Founded in 1840 by the Portuguese colonial administration, the city was named Namibe between 1985 and 2016. Moçâmedes has a cool dry climate and desert vegetation, because it is near the Namib Desert.
== History == thumb|left|Moçâmedes in 1908. thumb|left|Portuguese colonial architecture in the historic centre of Moçâmedes. The area was first explored by the Portuguese in 1785 and claimed for Portugal by Luís Cândido Cordeiro Pinheiro Furtado, who had been sent there in the frigate Loanda by the then governor-general of Angola, Baron Moçâmedes (Portuguese: Barão de Mossâmedes), who also sent an overland expedition headed by Gregório José Mendes to rendezvous with Furtado. They renamed the bay Moçâmedes in honour of the baron.