São Lourenço

From Portuguese São Lourenço, named after Saint Lawrence.

Here we Portuguese here are just a drop in the ocean. So even in my time when I arrived here the Portuguese still lived in a quarter of the São Lourenço parish up to Praia Grande, while the Chinese lived on the other side, behind the council chambers.[…] The Portuguese used to live in between the São Lourenço and the coast.

1996 [1982], Manuel Teixeira, quotee, “The Phantom of the Seminary: Father Manuel Teixeira (1982)”, in Pilgrims to the Past: Private Conversations with Historians of European Expansion, CNWS Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 106-107:

Cándido's father, Mateus Gutierrez Manaham,¹⁷ was born in Manila around 1785, and died in Macao (São Lourenço parish) on May 4, 1843.

2007, Review of Culture, number 23, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29, column 1:

Located in Macau’s São Lourenço parish, the barracks were completed in 1874 to accommodate around 200 troops from Goa, then part of Portuguese India.

2018 February 20, David Vetter, “Beyond the casino: 5 most Instagram-friendly Macau hotspots”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-02-23, Leisure:

The A-Ma Temple is a temple to the Chinese sea goddess Mazu. The temple is located in São Lourenço Parish, in an area known as the Barra District.

2019 October 9, “MEMORY LANE”, in Macau Daily Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-17, Macau:

The Consumer Council conducted its ‘Supermarket price survey’ of the second-half of December on 16 December for the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June. Surveyed locations included 13 supermarkets in São Lázaro, São Lourenço and Sé Parishes.

2019 December 16, Consumer Council [消費者委員會], “Consumer Council released 5th supermarket price survey report of the current month”, in Government Portal of Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China [中華人民共和國澳門特別行政區政府入口網站], archived from the original on 2023-09-17, News:

中華人民共和國澳門特別行政區政府入口網站

When I first went to Macau in January 2000, it was a quiet place with low-rise buildings and a few casinos, surrounded by fields and housing blocks. In the old Portuguese areas there were cobbled streets, yellow churches with green shutters, pink and white civic buildings in the Pombaline style. The Portuguese established a trading post at Macau in the mid-16th century; the area was handed back to China in December 1999. I remember sitting by a fountain eating custard tarts, a local delicacy. We went to a small, family-run casino, where bets were a pound or two and elderly women handed out marmalade sandwiches. I had an unprecedented run of luck, which paid for dinner at a restaurant in São Lourenço.

2019 December 31, Joanna Kavenna, “Notes from an author: Joanna Kavenna on Macau”, in National Geographic, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-01, Travel:


氹仔

/tɑŋ⁵¹ t͡saɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tʰɐm¹³ t͡sɐi̯³⁵/

/tɑŋ⁵¹ t͡saɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tʰɐm¹³ t͡sɐi̯³⁵/


Taipa

From Portuguese taipa, understood as a reference to mudflats.

Macao, at the mouth of the Canton river, contained, with the dependent islands of Taipa and Coloane, 74,568 Chinese, 3,106 native Portuguese, 615 Portuguese from the Continent and 177 from the islands, and 161 foreigners.

1899, “Portugal”, in Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1898 (Third Series), volume III (XXXVIII), New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 649, column 2:

Including two small islands—Taipa and Coloane—the whole colony totals only six square miles, but it supports some 300,000 people. About 99 percent are Chinese, many of them refugees.

1953 May, George W. Long, “Macau, a Hole in the Bamboo Curtain”, in National Geographic Magazine, volume CIII, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 679, column 1:

To the south of the main part of Macau, a bridge spanning a mile and a half of water leads to the island of Taipa, and a causeway connects Taipa to the other island, Coloane.

1986 January 12, Rudy Maxa, “Magical Macau, Gateway to China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-16:

The property is on Taipa, an island off the Macao peninsula, connected by a bridge. Most of the region’s casinos are on the peninsula, while Taipa is known as a residential area, and favored by expatriates. The island is about an hour from Hong Kong by ferry.

2010 April 27, Jeff Vandam, “House Hunting in ... China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-04-29, International Real Estate:

Taipa was once two islands that were slowly joined together by silt from the Pearl River. A similar physical joining has happened to Taipa and Coloane because of land reclamation from the sea. The new strip of land joining the two islands is known as Cotai (from Coloane and Taipa).

2017 May, Emily Matchar, Piera Chen, “Macau”, in Hong Kong (Lonely Planet), 17th edition, Lonely Planet Global Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 192:

It’s hard to imagine now, but there were once three mountainous, verdant islands between Macau and mainland China. The Portuguese named them Dom João, Montanha and Lapa. Later the islands became known in Chinese as Xiao (Little) Hengqin, Da (Big) Hengqin and Wanzai, respectively.
The two Hengqins, which faced Coloane and Taipa, were eventually joined by land reclamation to form a single island while Wanzai, a mere few hundred metres from Macau’s Inner Harbour (Porto Interior), saw its inclines levelled enough to become a peninsula.

2021 November 21, “On Chinese islands next to Macau, great stories of pirates, typhoons and war played out”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-11-21:

An island in Macau, linked to Coloane via Cotai and itself made up of two former islets, Taipa Grande and Taipa Pequena.


Taipa

→ English: Taipa


新橋

/ɕin⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/

/sɐn⁵⁵ kʰiːu̯²¹/

/ɕin⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/

/sɐn⁵⁵ kʰiːu̯²¹/


南灣

/nän³⁵ wän⁵⁵/

/naːm²¹ waːn⁵⁵⁻²¹/

/nän³⁵ wän⁵⁵/

/naːm²¹ waːn⁵⁵⁻²¹/

/nän³⁵ wän⁵⁵/


路氹

/lu⁵¹⁻⁵³ tɑŋ⁵¹/

/lou̯²² tʰɐm¹³/

/lu⁵¹⁻⁵³ tɑŋ⁵¹/

/lou̯²² tʰɐm¹³/

Cotai (an area in Macau) (a newly reclaimed area between Taipa and Coloane islands in Macau)


黑沙環

/xeɪ̯⁵⁵ ʂä⁵⁵ xu̯än³⁵/

/hɐk̚⁵ saː⁵⁵ waːn²¹/

/xeɪ̯⁵⁵ ʂä⁵⁵ xu̯än³⁵/

/hɐk̚⁵ saː⁵⁵ waːn²¹/


青洲

/t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/

Ilha Verde (an area in the northwest of Macau Peninsula, Macau)


臺山

/tʰaɪ̯³⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/

/tʰɔːi̯²¹ saːn⁵⁵/

/tʰaɪ̯³⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/

/tʰɔːi̯²¹ saːn⁵⁵/


皇朝

/xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑʊ̯³⁵/

/wɔːŋ²¹ t͡sʰiːu̯²¹/

/xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑʊ̯³⁵/

/wɔːŋ²¹ t͡sʰiːu̯²¹/

Zona Nova de Aterros do Porto Exterior#English

(～區) (informal) Zona Nova de Aterros do Porto Exterior (an area in Macau)


石排灣

/ʂʐ̩³⁵ pʰaɪ̯³⁵ wän⁵⁵/

/sɛːk̚² pʰaːi̯²¹ waːn⁵⁵/

/ʂʐ̩³⁵ pʰaɪ̯³⁵ wän⁵⁵/

/sɛːk̚² pʰaːi̯²¹ waːn⁵⁵/

Seac Pai Van (an area in Coloane, Macau)


Cotai

Blend of Coloane + Taipa, the areas immediately south and north of the area.

The first phase of the project in Macao's Cotai area, set to open in 2007, will feature seven resort hotels with more than 10,000 rooms, casinos and eight entertainment theaters as well as a convention center, said the Las Vegas Sands chairman, Sheldon G. Adelson.

2005 March 19, “World Business Briefing Asia: China: Casinos In Macao Deal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-29, Business Day:

Wynn Macau , a unit of Wynn Resorts Ltd , said on Monday it would pay $193.43 million to the Macau government for use of land to develop its resort project in the Cotai area.
In a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange, Wynn Macau said it formally accepted the terms and conditions of a land concession contract from the Macau government regarding about 51 acres of land in the Cotai area for development into a resort containing a five-star hotel, gaming areas, retail, entertainment, food and beverage, spa and convention offerings.

2011 September 11, Donny Kwok, “Wynn to pay $193 mln to Macau for Cotai project development”, in Muralikumar Anantharaman, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2016-08-19, Market News:

The core of Macau's gaming industry is moving to Cotai, which is already home to Galaxy Entertainment, Sands China and Melco Crown Entertainment.

2012 May 9, “Wynn's profits rise but game plan is for Cotai”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-16:

Galaxy shares soared 129 percent in 2013 as Lui and his son Francis expanded their biggest property, Galaxy Macau, in the city's Cotai area to capitalize on record visits by gamblers from China.

2014 January 10, Matthew G. Miller, Peter Newcomb, “Bloomberg Billionaires Index: The rich got $524 billion richer in 2013”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-01-10:

As he flew in, he saw his new casino towering over Cotai, its structural work finished months before, ready to open as soon as the workers installed beds and furniture and of course the baccarat tables. He realized he was looking at the perfect four-billion-dollar excuse.
Cheung had bitten. Now Duberman stood on the roof of the Sky, looking at the bridges that connected Cotai with the old Macao.

2016, Alex Berenson, The Wolves (Fiction), Wheeler Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 380:


Coloane

Probably from Cantonese 過路環／过路环 (gwo3 lou6 waan4), a Qing-era name of the sea off the southwest coast of Coloane, via Portuguese.

The Catholic being the state religion of Portugal, the prisons and the five government hospitals at Macao and in Portuguese Timor are all open to the ministrations of Catholic priests and sisters; three of these hospitals have chaplains of their own. The government also maintains on the islands of Coloane and Dom João, near Macao, two leperhouses, which are frequently visited by missionaries and sisters.

1910, Francis J. Bacchus, “Macao”, in The Catholic Encyclopedia, volume IX, New York: Robert Appleton Company, page 482, column 1:

Macao (UPI) — Three Chinese children were drowned when a sampan with 12 Chinese aboard sank while fleeing Communist China, it was learned. The 9 adults swam to safety on Coloane island off this Portuguese enclave.

1960 September 3, “3 Die Fleeing Reds”, in The Lincoln Star, volume 58, number 290, Lincoln, Nebraska, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 7:

Coloane, the southernmost of Macao's two islands, which is connected to the Macao peninsula by bridges and a causeway.

2005 July 8, Alex Frew McMillan, “In Macao, developers look to property as a sure bet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-16, Real Estate:

Over the next three years, the operators, including Melco Crown, SJM Holdings Ltd, Galaxy Entertainment Group and MGM China Holdings, will open new resorts on the Cotai strip, a reclaimed stretch of land between the bustling main peninsula of Macau and Coloane island, which is modelled on the Las Vegas strip.

2015 February 8, Farah Master, “In Macau, casino titans join China reform wagon”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-09-16, CYCLICAL CONSUMER GOODS:

A similar physical joining has happened to Taipa and Coloane because of land reclamation from the sea. The new strip of land joining the two islands is known as Cotai (from Coloane and Taipa).


Hac Sa

Coloane, where the Portuguese defeated some pirates in 1910, is supposed to have the nicest beaches, but I found them muddy. Hac Sa is a black sand beach. Ka Ho is a white sand beach. Cheoc Van is best for swimming.

1982 October 24, Pamela G. Hollie, “CHINA WITH A PORTUGUESE ACCENT”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-24, Travel, page 9:

Stretching for three-quarters of a mile (1.2 km) in a gentle crescent, Hac Sa Beach offers Macau residents a seaside retreat from their hectic urban lives. Most locals say Hac Sa is the best of the three strips of sand on Coloane, as it is much larger than scenic Cheoc Van Beach.

2007, Steven K. Bailey, “Coloane Island: Macau's Countryside”, in Strolling in Macau: A Visitor's Guide to Macau, Taipa, and Coloane, ThingsAsian Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 133:

One greyhound who has already found a home is retired racer Garlic, who loves strolling down the territory’s Hac Sa, or “Black Sand,” beach.

2018 July 30, “AP PHOTOS: Macau dog track closure prompts adoption pleas”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2024-05-04:


Taipa Grande

From a study of the available information, it was deduced that until approximately 1920, virtually the whole of the site was beneath the sea between the then separate islands of Taipa Grande and Taipa Pequena. In 1920 a causeway was built linking Taipa Grande to Taipa Pequena and this now forms the northern boundary of the site.

1983, World Dredging & Marine Construction, volume 19, Symcon Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:

Major reclaimed areas include the Ilha Verde area, Areia Preta, lao Hon, Hipódromo, the early twentieth century reclamation of the Porto Exterior, subsequent reclamation projects of the Porto Exterior (Zona de Aterros do Porto Exterior or ZAPE and the Novos Aterros do Porto Exterior or NAPE), and the enclosure of the Praia Grande project on the peninsula, the natural reclamation between the former islets of Taipa Grande and Taipa Pequena (Baixa da Taipa) which have now formed Taipa, the more recent reclamation just to the west of Ponta da Cabrita in north-east Taipa, and the even more recent airport reclamation to the east of Taipa.

2001, Richard Louis Edmonds, William John Kyle, “Land Use in Macau: Changes between 1972 and 1994”, in Arthur H. Chen, editor, Culture of Metropolis in Macau: An International Symposium on Cultural Heritage: Strategies for the Twenty-first Century, Cultural Affairs Bureau [文化局], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 255, column 2:

Taipa Quebrada was an anchorage in Taipa island that at the time was formed by two small islands, Taipa Grande (or Taipa Quebrada), and Taipa Pequena, initially separated by a narrow channel.

2013 [2009], Rogério Miguel Puga, “Notes”, in Monica Andrade, transl., The British Presence in Macau, 1635-1793, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 153:

The 2.2km-long Taipo Trail (Trilho de Taipa Grande) rings Taipa Grande, a 160m-high hill at the eastern end of the island.

2015 January, Piera Chen, Emily Matchar, “Macau”, in Hong Kong (Lonely Planet), 16th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 247, column 2:

A man was apprehended by the mainland police early yesterday morning in Zhongshan on suspected link with human body parts found in Taipa Grande on Saturday.
The suspect will be heard in court in mainland China.
Around noon on Saturday, the police and the Fire Service Bureau received reports of human body parts found along the trail in Taipa Grande near the CEM warehouse.

2021 June 14, Anthony Lam, “Suspect linked to body parts found in Taipa Grande apprehended in Zhongshan”, in Macau Daily News, archived from the original on 2021-06-14, Crime:

As of 4pm, the Avenida Dos Jogos Da Asia Oriental in Taipa recorded 236mm of total precipitation and Taipa Grande saw 213.4mm.

2022 June 8, “Macau sees multiple floods as red rain signal takes effect”, in The Standard, archived from the original on 2022-06-08, Local:

A hill in Taipa, Macau, formerly an islet.


Taipa Grande

→ English: Taipa Grande

[ˈtaɪ̯.pɐ ˈɡɾɐ̃.d͡ʒi]

[ˈtaɪ̯.pɐ ˈɡɾɐ̃.d͡ʒi]

Taipa Grande (a hill in Macau, formerly an islet)


Taipa Pequena

On Taipa Island, there are two trails, the 2.2km Taipa Grande and 2.3km Taipa Pequena which take hikers to the two highest points of the island, offering a panoramic view of Macau. The Taipa Grande trail takes about 2? hours and can be reached through a short paved road off the Estrada Colonel Nicolau de Mesquita, near the United Chinese Cemetery. Adjacent to the trail on the east side of Taipa Grande, near the airport, is the Taipa Grande Nature Park. The Taipa Pequena trail can be accessed from the Estrada Lou Lim Ieoc, behind the Regency Hotel, and takes about two hours.

2008 October 30, Prudence Lui, “A walk on the wild side”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-03:

This 6,000-square-foot apartment, on the top floor of a hillside building in the Macao region of China, has an indoor pool and a rooftop terrace with views of the city’s skyline and its many high-rise casinos.[…]
The kitchen has stainless steel counters and cabinetry, a breakfast bar and windows with views of Taipa Pequena, an undeveloped hill nearby with nature trails.

2010 April 27, Jeff Vandam, “House Hunting in ... China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-04-29, International Real Estate:

Governor Nobre de Carvalho Bridge is a dual-lane two-way bridge connecting the Macau Peninsula around Ferreira do Amaral Square to the island of Taipa at the northern slope of Taipa Pequena (Small Taipa Hill).[…]
 Its full shape resembles the one of a dragon, where Casino Lisboa represents the dragon’s head and Taipa Monument on Taipa Pequena represents the dragon’s tail.

2019 September 18, “Memory Lane”, in Macau Daily News, archived from the original on 2019-09-27:

The bedrock geology of Taipa Island is exposed primarily within forested hills of Taipa Grande and Taipa Pequena.

2021 March, J. Gregory Shellnutt, Matthew W. Vaughan, Hao-Yang Lee, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, “Late Jurassic Leucogranites of Macau (SE China): A Record of Crustal Recycling During the Early Yanshanian Orogeny”, in J. Gregory Shellnutt, Steven W. Denyszyn, Kwan-Nang Pang, editors, Granite Petrogenesis and Geodynamics, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 95, column 1:


Taipa Pequena

→ English: Taipa Pequena

Taipa Pequena (a hill in Macau, formerly an islet)


外港

/waɪ̯⁵¹ kɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ɡua²²⁻²¹ kaŋ⁵³/

/ɡua⁴¹⁻²² kaŋ⁵⁵⁴/

/ɡua²²⁻²¹ kaŋ⁵³/

/ɡua³³⁻¹¹ kaŋ⁵³/

/ɡua³³⁻²¹ kaŋ⁴¹/

/waɪ̯⁵¹ kɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ɡua²²⁻²¹ kaŋ⁵³/

/ɡua⁴¹⁻²² kaŋ⁵⁵⁴/

/ɡua²²⁻²¹ kaŋ⁵³/

/ɡua³³⁻¹¹ kaŋ⁵³/

/ɡua³³⁻²¹ kaŋ⁴¹/

Porto Exterior (an area in Northern Macau Peninsula, Macau)


新口岸

/ɕin⁵⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ˀän⁵¹/

/sɐn⁵⁵ hɐu̯³⁵ ŋɔːn²²/

/ɕin⁵⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ˀän⁵¹/

/sɐn⁵⁵ hɐu̯³⁵ ŋɔːn²²/

Zona de Aterros do Porto Exterior#English

Zona de Aterros do Porto Exterior (an area in Macau)


沙梨頭

/ʂä⁵⁵ li³⁵ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/

/saː⁵⁵ lei̯²¹ tʰɐu̯²¹/

/ʂä⁵⁵ li³⁵ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/

/saː⁵⁵ lei̯²¹ tʰɐu̯²¹/


媽閣

Portuguese: Macau

/maː¹³ kɔːk̚³/

/maː¹³ kɔːk̚³/