Namibe
Province
Namibe is a city in southwestern Angola on the Atlantic Ocean about 200 kilometers north of the Namibian border with a population of 150,000. It is the capital of the homonymous province. Worth seeing in the area are the Welwitschien.
History
The town was founded in 1840 by the Portuguese colonialists. As founder of the city is considered Bernardino Freire de Figueiredo Abreu e Castro from the Portuguese region of Trás -os- Montes, who created the town especially with Portuguese settlers from the Brazilian Pernambuco.
Until 1985 the official name Moçâmedes (also written Mossamedes ) was.
Traffic
Namibe is to Luanda and Lobito, the third largest port in the country.
Namibe is the starting point of the Namibebahn ( Moçâmedes -Bahn ).
The Aeroporto Yuri Gagarin in 1978, inaugurated the airport is under renovation, its reopening is scheduled for February 2014.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Carlos Castro (1945-2011), journalist and writer, activist for the rights of homosexuals
- António Aniceto Monteiro (1907-1980), Portuguese mathematician
- Herlander Peyroteo (1929-2002), Portuguese Film and television director
- João Teixeira Pinto (1876-1917), the Portuguese colonial officer
- Carlos Rocha ( b. 1974 ), Portuguese comic author
António Monteiro Anciento, after his marriage to Lidia Marina de Faria Torres
João Teixeira Pinto