The Portuguese Gold Coast was a Portuguese colony on the West African Gold Coast (present day Ghana) on the Gulf of Guinea.
The Portuguese established the following settlements on the Gold Coast from January 21, 1482:
Fort São Jorge da Mina de Ouro, modern Elmina: January 21, 1482 – August 28–9, 1637; this became the capitalFort Santo António de Axim, modern Axim: 1486 – 1642Fort São Francisco Xavier, modern Osu, district of Accra: 1640–1642Fort São Sebastião, modern Shama: 1526–1637.On August 29, 1637 the Dutch occupied São Jorge da Mina. On January 9, 1642 the whole colony was ceded to the Dutch, who made it part of their Dutch Gold Coast colony.
The Portuguese governors, going by this modest, military style, were:
1482 - 1485 - Diogo de Azambuja1485 - 1486 - Álvaro Vaz Pestano148? - Álvaro Mascarenhasc.1487 - João Fogaça1495 - 1499 - Lopo Soares de Albergaria1499? - 1503? - Fernão Lopes Correia1503? - 1506? - Diogo Lopes de Sequeira1506? - 1509? - António de Bobadilhac.1510 - Manuel de Góis1513 - Afonso Caldeirac.1513 - António Fróis1514 - 1516? - Nuno Vaz de Castelo Branco1516? - 1519 - Fernão Lopes Correia1519 - 1522 - Duarte Pacheco Pereira1522 - 1524 - Afonso de Albuquerque1524 - 1525 - João de Barros1526 - 1529 - João Vaz de Almada1529 - 1532 - Estêvão da Gama1536 - 1537 - Manuel de Albuquerque1537 - 1540? - ....1540 - 1543 - António de Miranda de Azevedo1541 - 1545? - Lopo de Sousa Coutinho1545 - Diogo Soares de Albergaria (1st time)1545 - 1548 - António de Brito1548 - 1550 - Lopo de Sousa Coutinho1550? - Martim de Castro1550? - 1552? - Diogo Soares de Albergaria (2nd time)1552? - Filipe Lobo1552? - 1556? - Rui de Melo1556 - 155? - Afonso Gonçalves de Botafogo155? - 1559 - António de Melo1559 - Manuel da Fonseca1559 - 1562 - Rui Gomes de Azevedo1562 - 15.. - Manuel de Mesquita Perestreloc.1562 - João Vaz de Almada Falcão156? - Francisco de Barros de Paiva1564 - 15.. - Fernando Cardoso15.. - 1570 - ....1570 - 1573 - António de Sác.1573 - Martim Afonsoc.1574 - c.15.. - Mendio da Mota15.. - c.1579 - ....1579 - c.1583 - Vasco Fernandes Pimentel1583 - 1586 - João Rodrigues Pessanha1586 - 15.. - Bernardinho Ribeiro Pacheco15.. - 1586 - ...1586 - 1594 - João Róis Coutinhoc.1595 - c.1596 - Duarte Lôbo da Gama1596 - 1608 - Cristóvão de Melo1608 - 1610 - Duarte de Lima1610 - 1613 - João de Castro1613 - 1616 - Pedro da Silva1616/17 - 1624 - Manuel da Cunha de Teive1624 - c.1625 - Francisco de Souto-Maior162? - 162? - Luís Tomé de Castro162? - 1629 - João da Serra de Morais1629 - c.1632 - ....1632 - 1634 - Pedro de Mascarenhas1634 - 1634 - Duarte Borges (acting)1634 - 1642 - André da Rocha Magalhães (acting)1642 - 1642 - Francisco de Sotte