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With Cape Verdean protagonists, who in the heat of their fights even pulled out knives and caused serious damage.
These episodes must have happened a long time ago, because in the second half of the century. XX until 1975, there is not even a record of the presence of a Cape Verdean community in Moçâmedes and much less of feuds as mentioned above.

In the book "The District of Moçâmedes in the phases of Origin and First Organization, 1485-1859", Júlio de Mendonça Torres, citing a Report by Governor Fernando da Costa Leal (the 5th Governor of the District), dated June 6, 1857, makes reference to North American whaling ships that operated between the Island of Santa Helena and the coast of Moçâmedes, an area abundant in cetaceans, especially whales, sperm whales and porpoises, in which they employed a large number of ships with around twenty to thirty sailors who served them. crew, most of whom were Portuguese, natives of the Azores and Cape Verde (Azoreans and Cape Verdeans), considered by North American captains to be the most dexterous harpooners.

In pursuit of whales, the ships sailed, almost always, a little far from the coast, sometimes heading south to Porto de Pinda and Baía dos Tigres, sometimes heading north to Moçâmedes Bay, where they sometimes anchored to stock up on refreshments.
It would be these mariners who, spreading the news about the richness of the fishing fauna in those seas, led the Algarve people from Olhão in 1961 to leave for Moçâmedes, drawing attention to the seas of Baia dos Tigres where the pioneers settled in 1865.
< br> Having said that, one wonders: "Does the name "BAIRRO DA FACADA" come from that? Did this name originate from some fight that occurred in that area, in one of those moments when sailors went ashore to stock up on food and of water?
Or even have fun, before resuming fishing activity? It is known, for example, that the name "AGUADA" comes from that time, and from those supplies from the whalers, which were anchored in the bay, in that place? near that area, while the sailors went ashore.