Our grandmothers told us that the term "Facada", which gave rise to the name "Bairro da Facada", in Moçâmedes, comes from bickering from time to time in that place, with Cape Verdean protagonists, who in the heat of their struggles arrived even pulling razors and causing serious damage.
These episodes should have happened a long time ago, because in the second half of the century. XX until 1975, there is not even the presence of a Cape Verdean community in Moçâmedes and much less feuds as mentioned above. In the book «O Distrito de Moçâmedes nas fases da Origem e da Primeira Organização, 1485-1859", Júlio de Mendonça Torres, citing a Report by Governor Fernando da Costa Leal (5th District Governor), of 6 June 1857, refers to North American whaling vessels that operated between the island of Santa Helena and the coast of Moçâmedes, an area abundant in cetaceans, especially whales, sperm whales and porpoises, in which a large number of vessels with around twenty to thirty sailors employed them. crewed, most of them portuguese, natives of the Azores and Cape Verde (Azorean and Cape Verdean), considered by the North American captains as the most skilled harpooners. In the pursuit of whales, the ships sailed, almost always, not far from the coast, now heading south to the Port of Pinda and Baía dos Tigres, now heading north to the bay of Mozambique, where they sometimes anchored to supply refreshments. is that spreading the news of the richness of the fishing fauna in those seas, they took the Olhão Algarves in 1961 to leave for Moçâmedes, drawing attention to the seas of Baia dos Tigres where the pioneers settled in 1865. That said, you ask yourself: "Does the name" BAIRRO DA FACADA "come from there? Did that name originate in some feud that occurred in that area, in one of those moments when the sailors went to the land to get food and supplies? before even resuming fishing activity? It is known, for example, that the name "AGUADA" comes from that time, and from those whaling supplies, which were anchored in the bay, in a place close to that area , while the sailors went ashore.
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