Forte de Mong Há Traditional Geocache
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The Forte de Mong-Há (望廈炮台) is located on the Colina de Mong-Há in Macau. The fort is part of a greater military reservation - the Bairro Militar de Mong-Há, which included the Quartel de Mong-Há. The Bairro Militar is bound by the Rua Francisco Xavier Pereira and the Colina de Mong-Há. The main fort complex was erected 1849 by Governor Ferreira do Amaral to protect the Macau's northern sector as precaution against a possible Chinese invasion following the First Opium War between Britain and China (1839-1842).
The fort's construction began in 1849 and was completed in 1864/66. The Quartel de Mong-Há was constructed in the 1920s. With the complete withdrawal of the Portuguese military establishment in the 1960s following the Sino-Portuguese repprochement, the fort and the Bairro Militar were deactivated, with the former being turned over to the Instituto de Formação Turística de Macau in the 1980s. In June 1997, the area surrounding the fort was transformed into the Jardim Municipal de Mong-Há.
With an overall area of 700 square meters, the brick-walled fort held ten artillery pieces with a firing range capable of reaching the Portas do Cerco. Along with the barracks for Portuguese troops of African origin (Landins), the fort also included a lookout post and a munitions dump.
望廈炮台（或稱望廈山炮台、蓮峰山炮台）是位於澳門望廈山市政公園之古老炮台。由於位處海拔60米高的望廈山上，故曾是葡萄牙殖民地時期的軍事防禦據點之一。
望廈炮台初建於1849年（清道光二十九年），1864年－1866年（清同治三年）重修落成。望廈炮台由澳門總督亞馬留負責監督興建，是為葡萄牙在澳門實施殖民主義之後第一座興建之炮台。昔日是澳門重要的軍事防禦據點之一，可裝置10門大炮，其位置可俯瞰澳門關閘一帶地區之活動。1960年，望廈炮台停止使用。曾駐有來自葡屬非洲的士兵，故又稱黑鬼山。
望廈炮台佔地約700平方米，形狀為矩形，而門口旁的火藥庫則是圓形。炮台圍牆身為花崗石，約有6米高。炮台的入口寬2.5米，高3米，門是厚木門，入口屋頂則鋪設長麻石。其入口的圍牆上設有11個槍眼，另炮台上設有一個高出平台4米的混凝土觀察台。炮台內，有通道通往附近之火藥庫和觀察台。與澳門區內的其他炮台不同，此炮台的炮口是朝向中國，直指關閘方向。
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