Ombadja (known as Santa Clara until 1975) is municipality in
Cunene Province
Cunene is a province of Angola. It has an area of 87,342 km2 and a population of 990,087 in 2014.
Ondjiva is the capital of the province; it was previously known as Vila Pereira d’Eça. Ondjiva is the only city in this province with the ...
,
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 ...
. Its seat is the village of
Xangongo (known in colonial times as Roçadas). It occupies 12,264 square kilometers and has about 304,964 inhabitants .
It is bordered to the north by the municipality of
Matala, in the east by the municipalities of
Cuvelai,
Namacunde, and
Cuanhama, and to the west by the municipalities of
Curoca
Curoca or Kuroka is a municipality in Cunene Province in 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, Portug ...
and
Cahama
Cahama is a town, with a population of 12,767 (2014 census), and a municipality of Cunene Province, Angola. The population of the municipality was 70,061 according to the 2014 census in an area of 9,700 km. The municipality consists of the c ...
. It contains the communes of
Xangongo,
Ombala-Yo-Mungo,
Naulila
Naulila is a town and commune in the municipality of Ombadja, province of Cunene, Angola.
Located on the Cunene River which separates Angola and Namibia, Naulila was the scene of fighting between Portuguese Angola and German South West Afric ...
,
Humbe
Humbe is a town and commune in the municipality of Ombadja, province of Cunene, Angola.
It also used to be the location of a Roman Catholic mission station in southern Angola, located approx. 10 km northeast of Xangongo, in the tribal area ...
and
Mucope.
References
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Cunene Province
Municipalities of Angola