🏔️ Cape Mesurado

Liberia · Africa · 6.31°N, 10.81°W

Cape Mesurado, also called Cape Montserrado, is a headland on the coast of Liberia near the capital Monrovia and the mouth of the Saint Paul River. It was named Cape Mesurado by Portuguese sailors in the 1560s. It is the promontory on which African-American settlers established the city now called Monrovia on 25 April 1822.

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Country	Liberia
Continent / region	Africa
Coordinates (approx.)	6.31°N, 10.81°W · view on map

Cape Mesurado is located in Liberia, in Africa.

More headlands in Liberia

Cape Palmas.

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