Lobito
Lobito is a municipality in Angola.
Lobito is a municipality in Angola. It is located in Benguela Province, on the Atlantic Coast north of the Catumbela Estuary. The Lobito municipality had a population of 393,079 in 2014.
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Worth seeing in and around Lobito
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Estádio do Buraco
Estádio do Buraco is a football stadium in Lobito, Benguela Province, Angola. It is owned by Académica Petróleos do Lobito and holds 5,000 people.
4.8 km · football stadium in Lobito, Angola · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Farol do Lobito
A historic lighthouse that serves as a guide for boats intending to enter the bay of Lobito.
- 02Fort of São Sebastião
A construction that served as a shelter on the Angolan coast, to control the slave trade.
From Wikivoyage: Lobito, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
One of the main cultural-religious traditions in the city are the Solemnities of Saints Pedro and Paulo, promoted by the Parish of São Paulo da Bela-Vista and by the Diocese of Benguela. The main sports team in Lobito is the Académica Petróleos Clube do Lobito which competes in Girabola.
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Getting to Lobito
- Stations
- Lobito Airport, 2.3 km · Port of Lobito, 600 m
- Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo) → Lobito355 km · quickest by road, 11h 8m · $47–65
- Luanda → Lobito394 km · quickest by road, 9h 52m · $41–55
- Pointe Noire → Lobito862 km · quickest by road, 28h 36m · $110–155
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No local-transport research exists yet for Lobito
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lobito. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Lobito
Lobito is 30 km from Benguela, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.