List of Famous people born in Palmela, Portugal

Hermenegildo Capelo

First Name Hermenegildo

Died on May 4, 1917

Born in Portugal, Setúbal, Palmela

Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo was an officer in the Portuguese Navy and a Portuguese explorer, helping to chart territory between Angola and Mozambique in southern Central Africa that was unknown to Europeans in the 1870s and 1880s. Alongside Roberto Ivens, he is famous for being the first European to cross Central Africa from coast to coast between Angola and Mozambique.

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