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Quilengues
Quilengues, also Kilenjes, is a town and municipality in Huíla Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 75,334 in 2014. Quilengues sits on the western edge of the Central Highlands, and is bordered to the north by the municipality of Chongoroi, the east by the municipality of Caluquembe, the south by the cities of Lubango and Cacula, and to the west by the municipalities of Bibala and Camucuio. The main activities are agriculture, trade and livestock. Quilengues was colonized by the Portuguese from 1770. It served as a gateway for the slave trade, and expanded the trade to the southeast of Angola on to the Kunene River The Cunene (Portuguese spelling) or Kunene (common Namibian spelling) is a river in Southern Africa. It flows from the Angola highlands south to the border with Namibia. It then flows west along the border until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean. It .... Quilengues became a municipality on July 1, 1870. References Populated places in Hu� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huíla Province
Huíla is a Provinces of Angola, province of Angola. It has an area of and a population of 2,497,422 (2014 census). Lubango is the capital of the province. Basket-making is a significant industry in the province; many make baskets out of reeds. History From the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1975) to Angola's independence, and the Angolan Civil War, subsequent civil war in Angola (1975-2002) Huíla was directly affected only during relatively short periods of time. Cassinga was abandoned by its European supervisors, and the mine fell into neglect during the ensuing Angolan Civil War. The following year it was occupied by the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), military wing of the South West African People's Organization. PLAN subsequently adopted Cassinga as a staging point for insurgent raids on South-West Africa, about 250 kilometres to the south. Their bases soon became a sanctuary for local refugees during the Namibian War of Independence. In 1978, PLAN's presence i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibala
Bibala (known as Vila Arriaga until 1975) is a town, with a population of 10,500 (2014), and a municipality in southern Angola. It lies in Namibe Province. The municipality of Bibala covers with a population of 64,504 (2014). It is bordered to the north by the municipality of Camucuio, to the east by Quilengues, Cacula, Lubango and Humpata, to the south by Virei, and to the west by Namibe. It is composed of the communes of Bibala-Sede, Caitou, Lola e Kapagombe. History The village developed under Portuguese colonial administration with the arrival of the Namibe Train on February 1, 1912. The village's original name was Vila Arriaga, after the Portuguese President Manuel José de Arriaga (1841-1917). Residential houses for the workers of the Mozambique Railroad were built here, and from then on the settling families continued to farm and breed cattle. Vila Arriaga became its own municipality on June 21, 1918. With the elevation to a small town (Vila) on December 13, 1965, Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Angola
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French and Latin . The English word ''municipality'' derives from the Latin social contract (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction, from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco, to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Angola
Angola is divided into eighteen provinces, known in Portuguese as ''províncias'': See also *List of provinces of Angola by Human Development Index * Municipalities of Angola * Communes of Angola The Communes of Angola ( pt, comunas) are Administrative division, administrative units in Angola after Municipalities of Angola, municipalities. The 163 municipalities of Angola are divided into communes. There are a total of 618 communes of Ang ... * ISO 3166-2:AO, the ISO codes for Angola. References Bibliography * {{Authority control Subdivisions of Angola Angola, Provinces Angola 1 Provinces, Angola Angola geography-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Africa Time
West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa. West Africa Time is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC+01:00), which aligns it with Central European Time (CET) during winter, and Western European Summer Time (WEST) / British Summer Time (BST) during summer. As most of this time zone is in the tropical region, there is little change in day length throughout the year and therefore daylight saving time is not observed. West Africa Time is the time zone for the following countries: * (as Central European Time) * * * * * * (western side only) * * * (as Central European Time) * * * * (as Central European Time) * Countries west of Benin (except Morocco and Western Sahara) are in the UTC±0 time zone. Civil time in most of those countries is defined with reference to Greenwich Mean Time (now an alias for UTC±0, rather than an independent reference). References See also * Central European Time, an equivalent time zone covering most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Köppen Climate Classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notably in 1918 and 1936. Later, the climatologist Rudolf Geiger (1894–1981) introduced some changes to the classification system, which is thus sometimes called the Köppen–Geiger climate classification system. The Köppen climate classification divides climates into five main climate groups, with each group being divided based on seasonal precipitation and temperature patterns. The five main groups are ''A'' (tropical), ''B'' (arid), ''C'' (temperate), ''D'' (continental), and ''E'' (polar). Each group and subgroup is represented by a letter. All climates are assigned a main group (the first letter). All climates except for those in the ''E'' group are assigned a seasonal precipitation subgroup (the second letter). For example, ''Af'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropical Savanna Climate
Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories ''Aw'' (for a dry winter) and ''As'' (for a dry summer). The driest month has less than of precipitation and also less than 100-\left (\frac \right)mm of precipitation. This latter fact is in a direct contrast to a tropical monsoon climate, whose driest month sees less than of precipitation but has ''more'' than 100-\left (\frac \right) of precipitation. In essence, a tropical savanna climate tends to either see less overall rainfall than a tropical monsoon climate or have more pronounced dry season(s). In tropical savanna climates, the dry season can become severe, and often drought conditions prevail during the course of the year. Tropical savanna climates often feature tree-studded grasslands due to its dryness, rather than thick jungle. It is this widespread occurrence of tall, coarse grass (called savanna) which has led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angola
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Central Highlands (Angola) , state electorate
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Central Highlands may refer to: *Central Highlands (Central America) *Massif Central of France *Highlands of Iceland *Central Highland (Japan) *Central Highlands (Madagascar) *Cameron Highlands of Malaysia *Central Highlands of Scotland, also known as the Grampians *Central Highlands of Sri Lanka *Central Highlands (Vietnam) Australia *Central Highlands Region, Queensland, local government area *Central Highlands (Tasmania), Australia **Central Highlands Council, local government area *Central Highlands (Victoria), Australia **Central Highlands Province Central Highlands Province was an electorate of the Legislative Council of Victoria, Australia. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1976 to 2006, with members holding alternating eight-year terms. It was a safe seat for the Liberal Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caluquembe
Caluquembe (Kalukembe) is a town and municipality, with a population of 179,931 (2014 census), in the province of Huíla, Angola. It is also the site of two missionary efforts; one, Roman Catholic and the other, Evangelical Protestant. At the Protestant mission there were for the majority of the past century a Bible school and a hospital run by the Swiss ''Alliance Missionaire Evangelique''. Climate Caluquembe has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer * Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan * Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...: ''Cwb''). References Didier Péclard, "Ethos missionnaire et esprit du capitalisme. La Mission Philafricaine en Angola, 1897-1907", Le Fait Missionnaire_ (Lausanne), no.1, Mai 1995, 97p. Populated places in Huíla Province Municipalities of Angola {{Angola-geo-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubango
Lubango, formerly known as Sá da Bandeira, is a municipality in Angola, capital of the Huíla Province, with a population of 914,456 in 2022. The city center had a population of 600,751 in 2014 making it the second-most populous city in Angola after the capital city Luanda. History Portuguese rule In 1882 approximately one thousand Portuguese settlers came from the island of Madeira to the area of current-day Lubango. These Portuguese farmers helped develop the region and founded the settlement. The city, originally established in 1885 to serve colonists from the Madeira Islands, lies at an elevation of 1,760 metres in a valley of the Huíla Plateau and was surrounded by a scenic park spreading up the mountain slopes. By 1910 there were over 1,700 ethnic Portuguese living in the settlement, which was referred to as "Lubango". By 1923 the Moçâmedes Railway had connected the settlement to the town of Moçâmedes in the coast. The Portuguese government made it a city and ren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
