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Lobito
Municipality in Benguela Province, Angola

Lobito

Lobito is a municipality in Angola.

Plan a trip to Lobito→From Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo)

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.

Get in

Getting to Lobito

The city is 13 km (8.1 mi) from Catumbela Airport and 33 km (21 mi) from Benguela Airport. The most important trunk road is the EN-100, which connects it to Luanda and Benguela. Another vital route is the Trans-African Highway 9 (or EN-250), which connects it to Balombo in the east.

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    Lobito
See

Worth seeing

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    Farol do Lobito

    A historic lighthouse that serves as a guide for boats intending to enter the bay of Lobito.

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    Fort of São Sebastião

    A construction that served as a shelter on the Angolan coast, to control the slave trade.

Do

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.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Timothy A. Gonsalves (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.