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Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast, the Glossary

The Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast is a marine ecoregion along the eastern coast of Africa, characterized by extensive mangrove swamps and coastal wetlands.^[1]

33 relations: Angoche, Bazaruto Archipelago, Beira, Mozambique, Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast, Cahora Bassa, Delagoa, East African coral coast, East African mangroves, Fringing reef, Indian Ocean, Indian prawn, Inhambane Province, Kariba Dam, Mangrove, Marine ecoregion, Marromeu Game Reserve, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel, Mozambique Current, Nampula Province, Nyawira Muthiga, Primeiras and Segundas Archipelago, Pungwe River, River delta, Save River (Africa), Sofala Province, Tide, Turbidity, Upwelling, Water bird, Western Indo-Pacific, Zambezi, Zambezia Province.
Bays of Mozambique
Continental shelves
Ecoregions of Mozambique
Western Indo-Pacific

Angoche

Angoche is a district, city and municipality located in Nampula Province in north-eastern Mozambique.

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Bazaruto Archipelago

The Bazaruto Archipelago is a group of six islands in Mozambique, near the mainland city of Vilankulo.

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Beira, Mozambique

Beira is the capital and largest city of Sofala Province, in the central region of Mozambique.

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The Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast is a marine ecoregion along the eastern coast of Africa, characterized by extensive mangrove swamps and coastal wetlands. Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast and Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast are Bays of Mozambique, Continental shelves, ecoregions of Mozambique, marine ecoregions and western Indo-Pacific.

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Cahora Bassa

The Cahora Bassa lake—in the Portuguese colonial era (until 1974) known as Cabora Bassa, from Nyungwe Kahoura-Bassa, meaning "finish the job"—is Africa's fourth-largest artificial lake, situated in the Tete Province in Mozambique.

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Delagoa

Delagoa is a marine ecoregion along the eastern coast of Africa. Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast and Delagoa are ecoregions of Mozambique, marine ecoregions and western Indo-Pacific.

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East African coral coast

The East African coral coast is a marine ecoregion along the eastern coast of Africa. Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast and east African coral coast are ecoregions of Mozambique, marine ecoregions and western Indo-Pacific.

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East African mangroves

The East African mangroves are a mangrove ecoregion consisting of swamps along the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa in Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya and southern Somalia. Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast and East African mangroves are ecoregions of Mozambique and western Indo-Pacific.

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Fringing reef

A fringing reef is one of the three main types of coral reef.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.

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Indian prawn

The Indian prawn (Fenneropenaeus indicus, formerly Penaeus indicus) is one of the major commercial prawn species of the world.

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Inhambane Province

Inhambane is a province of Mozambique located on the coast in the southern part of the country.

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Kariba Dam

The Kariba Dam is a double curvature concrete arch dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Marine ecoregion

A marine ecoregion is an ecoregion, or ecological region, of the oceans and seas identified and defined based on biogeographic characteristics. Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast and marine ecoregion are marine ecoregions.

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Marromeu Game Reserve

The Marromeu Game Reserve is a protected swath of of floodplain in the Zambezi, the only such area along the river.

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Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.

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Mozambique Channel

The Mozambique Channel (Canal du Mozambique, Lakandranon'i Mozambika, Canal de Moçambique) is an arm of the Indian Ocean located between the Southeast African countries of Madagascar and Mozambique.

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Mozambique Current

The Mozambique Current is an ocean current in the Indian Ocean, usually defined as warm surface waters flowing south along the African east coast in the Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and the island of Madagascar.

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Nampula Province

Nampula is a province of northern Mozambique.

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Nyawira Muthiga

Nyawira A. Muthiga is an African conservation zoologist who is Director of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association Marine Programme in Kenya.

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Primeiras and Segundas Archipelago

The Primeiras and Segundas Archipelago is a chain of 10 sparsely inhabited barrier islands and two coral reef complexes situated in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Zambezia Province of Mozambique.

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Pungwe River

Pungwe River (Rio Púngoè or Rio Púnguè) is a long river in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

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River delta

A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by the deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.

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Save River (Africa)

The Save River, or Sabi River (Portuguese: Rio Save) is a river of southeastern Africa, flowing through Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The river has its source in Zimbabwe, some south of Harare, then flows south and then east, from the Zimbabwean highveld to its confluence with the Odzi River. It then turns south, drops over the Chivirira (“Place of Boiling”) Falls, and flows down the western side of Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands, forming a dry river valley in the rain shadow of these mountains.

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Sofala Province

Sofala is a province of Mozambique.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.

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Turbidity

Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air.

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Upwelling

Upwelling is an oceanographic phenomenon that involves wind-driven motion of dense, cooler, and usually nutrient-rich water from deep water towards the ocean surface.

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Water bird

A water bird, alternatively waterbird or aquatic bird, is a bird that lives on or around water.

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Western Indo-Pacific

The Western Indo-Pacific is a biogeographic region of the Earth's seas, comprising the tropical waters of the eastern and central Indian Ocean.

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Zambezi

The Zambezi (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. Its drainage basin covers, slightly less than half of the Nile's. The river rises in Zambia and flows through eastern Angola, along the north-eastern border of Namibia and the northern border of Botswana, then along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe to Mozambique, where it crosses the country to empty into the Indian Ocean.

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Zambezia Province

Zambezia (Zambézia) is the second most-populous province of Mozambique, located in the central coastal region south-west of Nampula Province and north-east of Sofala Province.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bight_of_Sofala/Swamp_Coast

Also known as Bight of Sofala, Sofala Bank, Sofala Bay, Sofala Bight, Swamp Coast.

Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast, the Glossary

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See also

Bays of Mozambique

Continental shelves

Ecoregions of Mozambique

Western Indo-Pacific

References