# Cape Delgado

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Promontory in Mozambique

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**Cape Delgado** ([Portuguese](/source/Portuguese_language): *Cabo Delgado*) is a coastal [promontory](/source/Promontory) south of [Mozambique](/source/Mozambique)'s border with [Tanzania](/source/Tanzania). It is the arc-shaped [delta](/source/River_delta) of the [Rovuma River](/source/Rovuma_River) and was created from sediment deposited by the Rovuma as it empties into the [Indian Ocean](/source/Indian_Ocean).[1] It is sometimes identified with **Prasum**, the southernmost point of [Africa](/source/Africa) known to the [Roman geographers](/source/Ancient_geography) [Marinus](/source/Marinus_of_Tyre) of [Tyre](/source/Tyre_(city)) and [Ptolemy](/source/Ptolemy_(geographer)). In [Ptolemy's Geography](/source/Ptolemy's_Geography), it marked the point where Africa turned eastward along a great [unknown shore](/source/Terra_incognita) to meet [southeast Asia](/source/Southeast_Asia) and enclose the [Indian Ocean](/source/Indian_Ocean). [Medieval Islamic cartographers](/source/Medieval_Islamic_cartographers) dispensed with the idea at least as early as the 9th-century [al-Khwārizmī](/source/Al-Khw%C4%81rizm%C4%AB) but the conception returned to Europe following [Jacobus Angelus](/source/Jacobus_Angelus)'s c. 1406 [Latin](/source/Latin) translation of [Maximus Planudes](/source/Maximus_Planudes)'s restored Ptolemaic text and was not (openly) dispensed with until after [Bartholomew Dias](/source/Bartholomew_Dias)'s successful circumnavigation of Africa in 1488.

Cape Delgado gives its name to [Cabo Delgado Province](/source/Cabo_Delgado_Province) of Mozambique.[2][1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-impacto_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-impacto_1-1) ["Perfil Ambiental e Mapeamento do Uso Actual da Terra nos Distritos da Zona Costeira de Moçambique - Distrito de Palma – Versão Preliminar"](https://web.archive.org/web/20221019193214/https://www.biofund.org.mz/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1547476776-Perfil%20Palma.pdf) (PDF). *biofund.org.mz*. Impacto. 2012-06-01. Archived from [the original](https://www.biofund.org.mz/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1547476776-Perfil%20Palma.pdf) (PDF) on 2022-10-19. Retrieved 2026-03-10.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-mosambik_2-0)** Jahn, Susanne (2022-07-26). ["Namen und Macht in Mosambik"](https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/apropos/article/view/1930). *apropos [Perspektiven auf die Romania]* (8): 31–52. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.15460/apropos.8.1930](https://doi.org/10.15460%2Fapropos.8.1930). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [2627-3446](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/2627-3446). Retrieved 2026-03-10.

## See also

- Shar, M. D. (2025-04-23). "13. Cape Delgado: Mozambique's coastal treasure". [*Beyond the Headlands: Tales of Cape*](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Beyond_the_Headlands_Tales_of_Cape/3sFYEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT71&printsec=frontcover). Mahesh Dutt Sharma. Retrieved 2026-03-10.

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