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Dundo
Dundo, or Dundo-Chitato, is a former mining town, with a population of 177,604 (2014), now a city and the provincial capital of Lunda Norte in Angola. Established in the early part of the 20th century as a planned diamond mining community, Dundo has continued to grow, has its own airport and is now being superseded by a new city, New Dundo. The city is the home of the football club called Grupo Desportivo Sagrada Esperança, which plays at Estádio Quintalão. The local museum houses objects collected by social anthropologist, Hermann Baumann. History The settlement of Dundo was founded in 1912 after the discovery of diamonds in the Cuango River valley, located in the north-eastern border of Angola where it today adjoins the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Formed as a planned community to support the burgeoning mining operations, Dundo grew after the private investor company, Diamang (formed in 1917) were given the diamond mining concession in the entire region of Lunda, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundo
Dundo, or Dundo-Chitato, is a former mining town, with a population of 177,604 (2014), now a city and the provincial capital of Lunda Norte in Angola. Established in the early part of the 20th century as a planned diamond mining community, Dundo has continued to grow, has its own airport and is now being superseded by a new city, New Dundo. The city is the home of the football club called Grupo Desportivo Sagrada Esperança, which plays at Estádio Quintalão. The local museum houses objects collected by social anthropologist, Hermann Baumann. History The settlement of Dundo was founded in 1912 after the discovery of diamonds in the Cuango River valley, located in the north-eastern border of Angola where it today adjoins the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Formed as a planned community to support the burgeoning mining operations, Dundo grew after the private investor company, Diamang (formed in 1917) were given the diamond mining concession in the entire region of Lunda, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundo Airport
Dundo Airport, or Camaquenzo I Airport , is an airport serving the city of Dundo, the capital of Lunda Norte Province in Angola. The Dundo (Ident: DU) non-directional beacon is located on the field. Airlines and destinations See also * List of airports in Angola * Transport in Angola Transport in Angola comprises: Roads Walking home.jpg, Walking home on EN 105. Tired are they.jpg, Donkey-drawn carts. Transportation Jingu.jpg, Three-wheeled motorcycles. The riches transportation.jpg, Trucks. Midd Town Luanda.jpg, Automobil ... References External links * * OpenStreetMap - Dundo Airports in Angola Dundo {{Angola-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lunda Norte Province
Lunda Norte ( en, North Lunda) is a province of Angola. It has an area of 103,760 km² and a population of 862,566. Angola's first President, Agostino Neto, made Lucapa the provincial capital after independence, but the capital was later moved to Dundo. The province borders the Democratic Republic of Congo in the northeast and Lunda Sul in the south. The province is rich in gold and diamonds, but remains vastly underdeveloped and impoverished. UNITA used the money generated from the sale of diamonds to fund war efforts. Cuango River valley, the richest diamond area of Angola is located in the province. Mining is done by notable companies like DeBeers and Endiama. The Lunda province whose capital was Saurimo was created by the Portuguese colonial empire on July 13, 1895. It was divided into Lunda-Sul and Lunda-Norte subdivisions through a constitution act in 1978 by the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) government. Iron and manganese mining are also importa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitato
Chitato is a municipality of the province of Lunda Norte, in Angola. The population is 195,136 (2014 census). The municipality consists of the communes Luachimo and Dundo-Chitato. It is served by Chitato Airport Chitato Airport is an airport serving Dundo, Angola. The runway is northwest of the city. The Chitato (Ident: CH) and Dundo (Ident: DU) non-directional beacons are located south of the field. Dundo is also served by the larger Dundo Airport, .... References Municipalities of Angola Populated places in Lunda Norte Province {{Angola-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Angola
Angola is divided into eighteen provinces, known in Portuguese language, Portuguese as ''províncias'': See also *List of provinces of Angola by Human Development Index *Municipalities of Angola * Communes of Angola * ISO 3166-2:AO, the ISO codes for Angola. References Bibliography * {{Authority control Provinces of Angola, Subdivisions of Angola Lists of administrative divisions, Angola, Provinces Administrative divisions in Africa, Angola 1 First-level administrative divisions by country, Provinces, Angola Angola geography-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tshikapa
Tshikapa is the capital city of Kasai Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The city is located north of the Angolan border and west of Kananga at the confluence of the Tshikapa and Kasai rivers. According to records published by the Utrecht University library, the population of the city has grown from 38,900 in 1970 to 180,900 in 1994. However, the two recent Congo wars have caused great flux in population rendering current figures unreliable. Tshikapa has been a site of diamond mining since its founding in the early 20th century. The city was founded by Forminière, an American/Belgian mining consortium which discovered diamonds near this location in the early 1900s. The city is served by the Tshikapa Airport. The diamond industry is the main form of income for the city. Despite this, it is poor and few of the roads are paved. History Tshikapa was founded in the early 1900s by the American-Belgian mining consortium Forminière. The city grew rapidly as result of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Municipalities Of Angola
The following is a list of municipalities of Angola, grouped by province. Angola contains 18 ''províncias'' (provinces) which are divided into 164 ''municípios'' (translated as either municipality or city council), and these are further sub-divided into 559 ''comunas'' (communes). The two most recently created municipalities are Quilamba Quiaxi and Talatona in 2016. See also * Provinces of Angola References {{Angola topics Angola, Municipalities Angola Municipalities 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 go ... Municipalities, Angola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luachimo
Luachimo is a commune of Angola, located in the province of Lunda Norte. The city of Dundo is located in the commune. See also * 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 ... References Populated places in Angola {{Angola-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angola
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Endiama
Endiama E.P. (''Empresa Nacional de Diamantes E.P.'') is the national diamond company of Angola and it is the exclusive concessionary of mining rights in the domain of diamonds. Angola's state-run diamond company Endiama produced 8.55 million carats of diamonds in 2010. Endiama's primary property is Catoca, which is a joint venture between Endiama (32.8%), Russia based ALROSA (32.8%), China based LLI (18%), and Brazil based Odebrecht (16.4%). Catoca is the seventh largest diamond mine in the world, and is estimated to produce over 7 million carats of diamonds in 2014 worth just under $1 billion. March 13, 2014 Through the long time former president of Endiama, Noé Baltazar, who is part of the inner circle of |
Blood Diamond
''Blood Diamond'' is a 2006 American political war action thriller film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, and Djimon Hounsou. The title refers to blood diamonds, which are diamonds mined in war zones and sold to finance conflicts, and thereby profit warlords and diamond companies around the world. Set during the Sierra Leone Civil War of 1991–2002, the film depicts a country torn apart by the struggle between government loyalists and insurgent forces. It also portrays many of the atrocities of that war, including the rebels' amputation of civilians' hands to discourage them from voting in upcoming elections. The film's ending, in which a conference is held concerning blood diamonds, refers to a historic meeting that took place in Kimberley, South Africa, in 2000. It led to development of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, which sought to certify the origin of rough diamonds in order to curb the trade in con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saurimo
Saurimo, formerly known as Henrique de Carvalho, is a city in Angola, capital of the Lunda Sul Province :''Lunda Sul Province is not to be confused with Luanda Sul, a satellite city of Luanda, the capital of Angola.'' Lunda Sul ("South Lunda") is a Provinces of Angola, province of Angola. It has an area of 77,637 km² and a 2014 census popula .... Saurimo has a population of 393,000 (2014). Population of the major cities in Angola The population has swollen as a result of migrants fleeing civil conflict. History Formerly the town was known as Henrique De Carvalho, after the Portuguese explorer who visited the region in 1884 and contacted the local, and historically powerful, Lunda people.Geography It is located in northeastern Angola at an elevation of above sea level. It is a garr ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
