Cabo de Santa Maria (Angola)

Cabo de Santa Maria is a cape in Angola some 200 km southwest of Lobito and 130 km southwest of Benguela.

History
In 1482, the Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reached Cabo de Santa Maria on his first journey to explore the African West coast south of the Equator. The cape was first called Cabo do Lobo (Wolf's Cape).

To mark the place as being under Portuguese sovereignty, Diogo Cão erected a stone cross, a Padrão. It carried the following text:

It remained there until its transfer to Lisbon in 1892.