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MONTEIRO (José Firmo de Sousa). RELATÓRIO sobre o Resgate dos ”Machongos” do Sul do Save. Lourenço Marques. 1955. - MONTEIRO (José Firmo de Sousa) RELATÓRIO sobre o Resgate dos ”Machongos” do Sul do Save . Referente a 31 de Dezembro de 1953. Por José Firmo de Sousa Monteiro. Lourenço Marques: Imprensa Nacional de Moçambique, 1955. 188 pp., [8] ff. de fotogravuras em papel couché, 3 planos e alçados (2 desdobráveis), 5 plantas desdobráveis coloridas de grande formato; 280 mm. Technical report prepared by the Agricultural Hydraulics Section of the Agricultural Technical Department of the Province of Mozambique, under the responsibility of civil engineer José Firmo de Sousa Monteiro. The term ”machongos” designates, in the local language, peaty lands on the southern coast of the Save River, an area of particular interest for Portuguese agricultural colonization in Mozambique. The report documents the agricultural parceling work in the Limpopo Valley near the town of João Belo, including housing projects for settlers and indigenous populations, warehouses, and hydro-agricultural infrastructure. Richly illustrated with photogravures printed on coated paper, plans, architectural elevations, and large-format color maps, some of which are fold-out, it constitutes a reference document on the colonial agricultural development policy of the Estado Novo regime in Mozambique. The report was followed by subsequent editions, dated December 31, 1957 (Lourenço Marques, 1959) and other dates, documenting the project's evolution over the years. Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate