The largest slave trading ports in Mozambique were located in the north, an area traditionally populated by the Makua people, and while not all the slaves exported from these ports were Makua, the name came to be associated with slaves exported from the area.
莫桑比克最大的奴隸貿易港口位於北部，是馬庫亞人口傳統的地區，但不是所有從這些港口出口的奴隸都是馬庫亞人，馬科亞人這個名字與該地區出口的奴隸有關。