Luanda Bay is a

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, located in front of the city of

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, capital of

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. In front of the bay are located several monuments of great historical value, such as the Banco de Angola Building and the

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.Isabel Martins, José Manuel Fernandes, Manuel Correia Fernandes
Luanda
HPIP. The bay, whose waters are protected by the island of Luanda, was the place of foundation of the city of Luanda by

Paulo Dias de Novais Paulo Dias de Novais (c. 1510 – 9 May 1589), a fidalgo of the Royal Household, was a Portuguese colonizer of Africa in the 16th century and the first Captain-Governor of Portuguese Angola. He was the grandson of the explorer Bartolomeu Dias. ...

in 1575/1576. On the banks of the bay, the so-called Cidade Baixa de Luanda grew, where most of the city's population settled, while Cidade Alta de Luanda was formed as an administrative and military center. Luanda Bay was an immense bay that extended from cape of the Lagostas (Cacuaco Cove) to Corimba cape, close to the Vala do Samba River, isolated in the Atlantic Ocean by another major geographical accident, the island of Luanda. This geographical configuration lasted until the first half of the 20th century, when the natural channel that formed the great bay of Luanda was

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for the construction of a passage on Avenida 4 de Fevereiro (in

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: February 4th avenue). Thus, an avenue separated the northern portion from the southern portion of the Luanda bay, forming a new geographical accident, which received the name of Samba bay, but with characteristics similar to an estuary. The southern part of the island of Luanda became the Chicala cape, a new peninsula.Amaral, llídio do
Luanda e os seus dois arcos complexos de vulnerabilidade e risco: o das restingas longas e ilhas baixas e o das escarpas abarrocadas
Lisboa: Revista Territorium, setembro de 2002.

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{{List of African seas Bays of the Atlantic Ocean Bays of Angola

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