Songo
Songo is a town in Central Mozambique. The nearby dam, called Cahora Bassa, is a large hydroelectric scheme that supplies electricity to grids as far as South Africa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 31,100 residents
- Description: town in Mozambique
- Also known as: “Songo, Mozambique”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Songo Airport.
Songo Airport
Aerodrome
Songo Airport serves the town of Songo, Mozambique. Construction of the airport started in 1971.
Songo
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Tete, Central Mozambique, Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-15.5951° or 15° 35′ 42″ southLongitude
32.775° or 32° 46′ 30″ eastPopulation
31,100Elevation
910 metres (2,986 feet)Open location code
5GPJCQ3F+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 1423065191OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1026755Wikidata ID
Q10373307
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Portuguese—“Songo” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Songo”
- Bengali: “সংগো”
- Catalan: “Songo”
- German: “Songo”
- Lithuanian: “Songas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Songo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Songo”
- Norwegian: “Songo”
- Portuguese: “Songo (Moçambique)”
- Portuguese: “Songo”
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