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Early Dutch commercial records indicate that Loango exported considerable copper to the European market during this period. Loango was a major producer and exporter of cloth, both to the interior and to the Portuguese in Luanda, where thousands of meters of Loango cloth were imported in the early seventeenth century. [44] [45]
Loango National Park (French: Parc national de Loango) is a national park in western Gabon.It protects diverse coastal habitats including part of the 220-square-kilometre (85 sq mi) Iguéla Lagoon, the only significant example of a typical western African lagoon system that is protected within a national park.
The local explanation for the town name, is that it comes from a combination of the words load, and, and go. [4] A more probable source is the Loango Coast and the port of Loango, Republic of Congo, a major source of slaves before the outlawing of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Ma-Loango Regional Museum Ma-Loango Regional Museum Exhibits. Founded in 1982, the ethnography and history of the Loango Kingdom is displayed in the Mâ-Loango Regional Museum, located in Diosso. The museum is a public institution and, as a regional branch, was founded with the aim of protecting cultural heritage. [11]
Loango, Republic of Congo, a town in the Republic of the Congo Loango slavery harbour is a Republic of the Congo cultural site included in World Heritage Tentative Lists in 2008; Loango National Park, a national park in Western Gabon; Petit Loango, a town in Gabon; Kingdom of Loango, a pre-colonial state in what is now the Republic of the Congo
Loango emerged in the 16th century. In the late 19th century France colonised the region and incorporated it into French Equatorial Africa. [3] The Republic of the Congo was established on 28 November 1958 and gained independence from France in 1960.
Grass Cay (left), Mingo Cay (middle), and Lovango Cay (right), as seen from a ferry. Lovango Cay is a private island in the district of St. John, in the United States Virgin Islands.
Loango (can also be written as Luango, Lwango, Luangu, Lwangu, Luaangu or Lwaangu) is a town of the Republic of the Congo. Since 2011 it has been the capital of the Kouilou Department and of the new Loango District .