Katembe is located on the south-western side of Maputo Bay, near the Estuário do Espírito Santo where the rivers Tembe, Mbuluzi, Matola and Infulene converge.

[2] Katembe is approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi), by road, south of the central business district of Maputo.

It is connected to the rest of Maputo by the Maputo-Katembe Bridge, a 680 metres (2,231 ft) infrastructure development, constructed between June 6, 2014 and 10 November 2018.

[3] It is part of a 187 kilometres (116 mi), highway that will directly link the capital city Maputo to the border with South Africa.

The bridge is a four-lane dual carriageway with maximum speed design of 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph).