Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Instituto Nacional de Hidrografia e Navegação
(Inahina;
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Google map
21-429108, 21-429240; Rua Marques de Pombal, Maputo)
Coastal and maritime maps
(cartas náuticas)
and tide tables (
tabelas de marés
); at the
capitania
, behind the white
Safmar building near the port.
Direcção Nacional de Geografia e Cadastro
(Dinageca;
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21-302555; 537 Avenida Josina Machel, Maputo)
Detailed topographical maps.
PRACTICALITIES
»
Currency
New Mozambican Metical (Mtc)
»
Newspapers
Notícias
and
Diário de Moçambique
(dailies);
Savanna
(weekly). Mozambique News Agency
(AIM;
www.poptel.org.uk/mozambique
-news) website for English-language news
»
TV
TVM (
www.tvm.co.mz
;
state run), RTK (commercial), RTPI (Portuguese TV)
»
Weights & measures
Metric system
Money
» Mozambique's currency is the metical (plural
meticais,
pronounced 'meticaish') nova
família
,
abbreviated in this chapter as Mtc. Note denominations include Mtc20, Mtc50,
Mtc100, Mtc200, Mtc500 and Mtc1000, and coins include Mtc1, Mtc2, Mtc5 and Mtc10.
» One metical is equivalent to 100 centavos (Ct), and there are also coins of Ct1, Ct5,
Ct10, Ct20 and Ct50, plus a few old metical coins (not acceptable as tender) floating
around.
» Visa card withdrawal from ATMs is the best way of accessing money.
» Carry a standby mixture of US dollars (or South African rand, especially in the south)
and meticais (including a good supply of small denomination notes, as nobody ever has
change) for times when an ATM is nonexistent or not working.
ATMS
» All larger and many smaller towns have ATMs for accessing cash meticais. Most of
them (including Barclays, BCI and Standard Bank) accept Visa card only; Millennium
BIM machines also accept Mastercard.
