Quelimane

Quelimane is a seaport in Mozambique, the administrative capital of Zambezia Province and the province's largest city. It stands 25 kilometres from the mouth of the Rio dos Bons Sinais, the River of the Good Signs, which Vasco da Gama named when he reached it on his way to India. The town began as a Swahili trade centre and grew as a slave market of the Indian Ocean slave trade, and it was the end point of David Livingstone's west-to-east crossing of south-central Africa in 1856. Portuguese is the official language of Mozambique and the most common local language is Chuabo. Quelimane, like much of Zambezia, is extremely prone to floods in the rainy season, and the city has a large hospital, two cathedrals, a mosque and a public university for teachers.