Caluquembe (Kalukembe) is a town and

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, with a population of 179,931 (2014 census), in the province of Huíla, Angola. It is also the site of two missionary efforts; one,

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and the other,

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. 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

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(

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: ''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-stub