Manga

Manga has served as a residential quarter in the Beira urban area of Sofala Province since the city’s twentieth-century expansion. It stands on central Mozambique’s low coastal plain, in the same setting as the Pungwe River estuary and the Indian Ocean coast. The wider city grew around an important port: Beira was established in 1891 and became a maritime outlet for Zimbabwe and other inland neighbours. Manga belongs to a rapidly growing urban area beyond Beira’s colonial-era centre, where daily life unfolds in streets, shops and residential districts. Its location also reflects the vulnerability of this coast to cyclones and flooding, brought into sharp focus by Cyclone Idai in 2019. Move on to other webcams in Sofala Province to compare urban and coastal settings around Manga.

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