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Soyo (formerly known as Santo António do Zaire) is a city located in the province of Zaire in Angola. Soyo recently became the largest oil-producing region in the country, with an estimate of 1,200,000 barrels per day.
History
Soyo (originally spelled Sonho and pronounced Sonyo) was a province of the Kingdom of Kongo, which stretched south from the mouth of the Congo River to the River Loze, and inland from about 100 kilometers. It was already an administrative entity whose ruler or governor bore the title mwene Soyo or lord of Soyo when the Portuguese arrived in 1482. The ruler was the first Kongo lord to be baptized when Christian missionaries came to the kingdom of Kongo in 1491.
