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Maputo Catholic Cathedral
This Museum tells a very interesting story
about both the struggle against Portugese
Colonialism, and the disastrous civil war that
ended in the early 1990’s.
Cahora Bassa Dam
Cahora Bassa is an impressive dam that
was built on the Zambezi River in the late
sixties. Situated near Songo in the Tete
Province of Mozambique, the dam is of
epic proportions, being more than 170
metres / 558 feet in height and just over
300 metres / 984 feet in width, serving as
the principal hydroelectric scheme cur-
rently operating in Southern Africa. This is
one of three sizeable dams based on the
river. The lake itself is simply vast, rating as
Africa’s fourth-biggest artificial lake, and
measures in at some 250 km / 155 miles
long by 38 km / 23 miles wide.
The Iron House
This house is steel!
Eiffel designed this steel bolted building to
be a governor’s house. However, it was
never inhabited by the Governor. It is now
the office of the Museums Department.
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