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Malabo city overview
Malabo is a city in Equatorial Guinea shaped by its region, population, local economy, landmarks, climate and civic history. This overview summarizes the city itself: where it sits, what defines it, which places anchor its identity and why it matters within the wider country.
City facts
Known forMalabo, Capital city in Equatorial Guinea, Malabo planning base 3, Malabo planning base 4
RegionEquatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea
Time zoneAfrica/Malabolocal time
Founded1472historical origin
City history
European discovery and Portuguese occupation In 1472, in an attempt to find a new route to India, the Portuguese navigator Fernão do Pó, encountered the island of Bioko, which he called Formosa.
At the beginning of the 16th century, specifically in 1507, the Portuguese Ramos de Esquivel made a first attempt at colonization on the island of Fernando Pó.
With the Treaties of San Ildefonso in 1777 and El Pardo in 1778, during the reign of the Spanish King Charles III, the Portuguese gave to the Spanish the islands of Fernando Pó, Annobón.
Thus, on 25 December 1827, Port Clarence was founded on the ruins of a previous Portuguese settlement.
Spain again took control of the island in 1855 and the capital, Port Clarence, was renamed Santa Isabel, in honor of Queen Isabella II.
Bubi clans and settlements were slow to accept Spanish sovereignty over the island, and the full conquest of the island was not achieved until 1912. Reign of Terror During the so-called Reign of Terror.
He established a factory in Concepción (now Riaba) and developed plantations of sugarcane.
He found it abandoned and founded the establishments of Melville Bay (now Riaba) and San Carlos (now Luba).
Some years later, another British captain, William Fitzwilliam Owen, decided to colonize the island and in the north of it — on the site of the present capital — erected a base for British.
These freedmen were settled in Port Clarence before the establishment of Sierra Leone as a colony for freed slaves.
During the British period, the British consul automatically became the governor of the colony, including Governor John Beecroft, a British mulatto who modernized the capital, and whose work was later recognized by Spain with.
The capital already had more dynamic and Protestant religious missions which were very successful.
The capital of the island of Fernando Pó became the capital of Equatorial Guinea.
After the Spanish killed Sas Ebuera, Malabo became the king unopposed, but with no authority.
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Malabo
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Capital city in Equatorial Guinea
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Malabo planning base 3
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Malabo planning base 4
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Malabo planning base 5
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Stay overview
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Hotels & areas
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Transport notes
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