Chiluane

Chiluane is an island off the coast south of Sofala, at the southern end of the Swahili trading world. Navigators knew it as Kilwani, a name related to the Swahili word for an island, and early Portuguese accounts recorded a Swahili settlement there. Nearby Sofala was an outlet for gold brought from the inland plateau, linking the peoples of the coast and interior with merchants who sailed the Indian Ocean. Portuguese traders established a fort at Sofala in 1505.