Bero River

The Bero is a river in southern Angola. Its mouth is at Little Fish Bay in the Atlantic Ocean on the north side of the city of Moçâmedes in Namibe Province.[1]

Bero
Bero (Angola)

History

In 1849 Portuguese colonists from Brazil started farms along the river.[2] During a period of conflict with the Ovimbundu in 1862, the Portuguese stationed troops on both banks of the Bero.[3][4] By the late 19th and early 20th century, the Bero River marshes supported fruit, cotton, sugar and coffee farms, as well as providing fresh water to passing steamships although it was noted that the might be only a foot of water in the river in the dry season.[5][6] Work to desilt the river and reinforce its banks near the river mouth was done in the 2000s for flood control.[7][8]

The plant, Euphorbia berotica, was named after the river because it was discovered in the area.[9]

See also

References
  1. "Bero". Mapcarta. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  2. Sea fisheries and fish ports in Angola, Irene S. Van Dongen, 1962, p. 14
  3. Relatorio Do Governador Geral Da Provincia de Angola: Sebastiao Lopes de Calheiros E Menezes Referido Ao Anno de 1861 Angola. Govêrno Geralm Impr. Nacional, 1867, p. 200
  4. General history of Africa. 6. Africa in the nineteenth century until the 1880s, J. F. Ade Ajayi, UNESCO, Jan 1, 1989, p. 314
  5. Africa Pilot: The southwest coast of Africa from Cape Palmas to the Cape of Good Hope, including the islands of St. Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, and neighboring islands, United States Hydrographic Office, 1916, pp. 420-421
  6. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, Volume 5, Edward Stanford, 1883, p. 458.
  7. "Opway.pt - Rio Bero - Desassoreamento e Regularização do Leito do Rio Bero - 3ª Fase - Namibe". Archived from the original on 2014-01-06. Retrieved 2014-01-05.
  8. Urbanisation minister checks cleaning works on Bero River Archived January 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, ANGOP - Angola Press News Agency, 05 Oct 2010
  9. Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names, Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton Springer, Mar 11, 2004, p. 25

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