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Matola

Mozambique

Watercolour of Matola, Mozambique. Centered around Matola River estuary with traditional wooden dhows, Portuguese colonial verandas, and lush cashew and palm groves. Featuring Matola River and Estádio da Machava.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Matola River; Estádio da Machava; Matola; Mozambican; Maputo Bay; lush southern Mozambican coastal flora; Mozambican
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking across the landscape toward the signature landmarks of Matola, showing regional foliage and foreground textures, the iconic architectural monuments in the middle-ground, and the distant horizon fading in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in thick cashew nut orchards, coconut palms along shores, and mangrove channels.
Population1,198,988Wikidata: 1,032,197
Coordinates25.96°S, 32.46°E
Elevation3 m
Area373 km²
Time zoneAfrica/MaputoUTC+2
Solar noon11:50clock runs 0.2 h behind the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Matola and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Honomu, United States — 1,030 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

MaputoMZ12 km
LobambaSZ138 km
MbabaneSZ139 km
PretoriaZA428 km
JohannesburgZA442 km
DurbanZA456 km
SowetoZA461 km
MaseruLS617 km

Twinned cities

Wikidata records no twinned cities for Matola inside this atlas.

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