{{Short description|Promontory in Mozambique}} {{more citations|date=March 2026}} [[Image:Cape Delgado.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Cape Delgado from space]] '''Cape Delgado''' ({{langx|pt|Cabo Delgado}}) is a coastal [[promontory]] south of [[Mozambique]]'s border with [[Tanzania]]. It is the arc-shaped [[river delta|delta]] of the [[Rovuma River]] and was created from sediment deposited by the Rovuma as it empties into the [[Indian Ocean]].<ref name="impacto">{{cite web | title=Perfil Ambiental e Mapeamento do Uso Actual da Terra nos Distritos da Zona Costeira de Moçambique - Distrito de Palma – Versão Preliminar | website=biofund.org.mz |publisher=Impacto | date=2012-06-01 | url=https://www.biofund.org.mz/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1547476776-Perfil%20Palma.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221019193214/https://www.biofund.org.mz/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1547476776-Perfil%20Palma.pdf | archive-date=2022-10-19 | url-status=dead | access-date=2026-03-10}}</ref> It is sometimes identified with '''Prasum''', the southernmost point of [[Africa]] known to the [[ancient geography|Roman geographers]] [[Marinus of Tyre|Marinus]] of [[Tyre (city)|Tyre]] and [[Ptolemy (geographer)|Ptolemy]]. In [[Ptolemy's Geography]], it marked the point where Africa turned eastward along a great [[terra incognita|unknown shore]] to meet [[southeast Asia]] and enclose the [[Indian Ocean]]. [[Medieval Islamic cartographers]] dispensed with the idea at least as early as the 9th-century [[al-Khwārizmī]] but the conception returned to Europe following [[Jacobus Angelus]]'s {{circa|lk=no|1406}} [[Latin]] translation of [[Maximus Planudes]]'s restored Ptolemaic text and was not (openly) dispensed with until after [[Bartholomew Dias]]'s successful circumnavigation of Africa in 1488.
Cape Delgado gives its name to [[Cabo Delgado Province]] of Mozambique.<ref name="mosambik">{{cite journal | last=Jahn | first=Susanne | title=Namen und Macht in Mosambik | journal=apropos [Perspektiven auf die Romania] | issue=8 | date=2022-07-26 | issn=2627-3446 | doi=10.15460/apropos.8.1930 | pages=31–52 | url=https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/apropos/article/view/1930 | access-date=2026-03-10| doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="impacto"/>
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==See also== * {{cite book | last=Shar | first=M. D. | title=Beyond the Headlands: Tales of Cape | publisher=Mahesh Dutt Sharma | date=2025-04-23 | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Beyond_the_Headlands_Tales_of_Cape/3sFYEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT71&printsec=frontcover | chapter=13. Cape Delgado: Mozambique's coastal treasure | access-date=2026-03-10 | page=}}
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