Santa María

Santa Maria is located in an idyllic bay on the northwestern tip of Machangulo, it faces the island of Inhaca. The largest town on the peninsula is home to about 400 people, who live in the village itself and scattered around it. The place is very humble, most houses are built in a very precarious way with wood and esparto, and there are no streets, and no one has a car. Only the school and the hospital are quite new and modern, and are built with bricks. In Santa Maria there are two barracks and a outdoor market where women sell a few products grown in their gardens. A quietness inhabits the village.