Cazenga is a city and the most densely populated of the nine municipalities that make up the
province of Luanda,
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...
. It has a population of 892,401 (2014 census), with an estimated 1,045,722 in 2019, covering an area of 37 km
2.
Administrative divisions
The municipality of Cazenga is made up of three communes:
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Cazenga
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Tala Hady
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Hoji Ya Henda
Transportation
Cazenga is the site of the workshops for the
Luanda Railway.
Utilities
In a 1974 article American political scientist Gerald J. Bender wrote: "Another account of the sale of water to Africans can be found in the Luandan newspaper, ''Província de Angola''. The article reported that water is sold in the slum of Cazenga at an average price of 2.5
escudo
The escudo ( Portuguese: 'shield') is a unit of currency which is used in Cape Verde, and which has been used by Portugal, Spain and their colonies. The original coin was worth 16 silver . The Cape Verdean escudo is, and the Portuguese escudo ...
s (about ten American cents) for five gallons. (The legal minimum daily wage for the district of Luanda in July 1974 was 25 escudos - about one American dollar-per day.)
[''A Província de Angola'']
See also
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Railway stations in Angola
Railway stations in Angola include:
Towns served by rail
North line (Luanda Railway) (CFL)
(Also known as '' Luanda Railway'') (originally 1000 mm gauge, now 1067 mm gauge)
* Luanda – port – national capital; junction
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References
Municipalities in Luanda
Populated places in Luanda Province
Slums in Africa
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