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Quixinge
Quixinge is a commune in the municipality of Quiçama, Icolo e Bengo Province, Angola. Transport It is served by an extension of a branch railway of the northern railway. See also * 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 ** Bungo ... References Communes of Angola Populated places in Icolo e Bengo Province {{Angola-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ** Bungo (0 km) Start of Duplication. ** Caxito – branch terminus; provincial capital ** Quicabo * Funda ** Cabiri – branch terminus * Sambizanga * Rangel * Cazenga – workshops * Viana (23 km) – suburban station; stadium ** (junction) ** Baía Farta branch terminus; end of duplication * Camizunzo * Catete * Zenza do Itombe – junction ** Dondo – branch terminus ** Quixinge – branch extension * Beira Alta (Angola, Cuanza Norte) * Canhoca – junction ** Cambondo – branch terminus * N'dalatando * Cacuso * Lombe * Malanje (479 km) – terminus * Golungo Alto – branch terminus ---- * Musseques – first passenger halt from port * Filda * Grafanil * Estagem * Comarca * Viana * Pomagol ---- * Bungo * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quiçama
Quiçama (Portuguese spelling), Quissama or Kisama (Bantu spelling) is one of the nine ''municípios'' (city council or municipality) that make up the province of Luanda, as per the new administrative division of the province (the others being, Luanda, Belas, Cazenga, Cacuaco, Viana and Icolo e Bengo). It covers an area of and its population as of 2014 is 26,546. The municipal seat is the village of Muxima. Quiçama is bordered to the north by the municipalities of Viana and Icolo e Bengo, to the east by the municipalities of Cambambe, Libolo and Quibala, to the south by the municipalities of Quilenda and Porto Amboim, and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the municipality is occupied by the Quiçama National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional da Quiçama). History In the 1580s Kafuxi ka Mbari was the recognized defender of this area. In the 1580s he and the Portuguese based out of Luanda asserted his authority here. In 1594 Francisco de Almeida with the support of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icolo E Bengo Province
Icolo e Bengo is a province of Angola. It was created on 5 September 2024 from Luanda Province. Its capital is Catete. Geography and climate Icolo e Bengo borders the Angolan provinces of Luanda to the northwest, Bengo to the north, Cuanza Norte to the east, and Cuanza Sul to the south. It also borders the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The boundary between Icolo e Bengo and Luanda follows the Cuanza River, the Kikuxi Canal, and the and highways. Icolo e Bengo is located on the floodplains of the Bengo, Cuanza and Longa rivers. The province is located in the Angolan Scarp savanna and woodlands ecoregion, and it contains Quiçama National Park. Icolo e Bengo experiences a tropical climate with summer rain. The interaction between the cold Benguela Current and warm equatorial waters produces mist, causing humidity in the area to stay high year-round while annual rainfall is low, ranging from . History On 14 August 2024, Angola's National Assembly approved a law to create three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Angola: Bengo (province), Bengo Province *Ambriz *Kakalo-Kahango *Ícolo e Bengo *Cassoneca *Bela Vista, Angola, Bela Vista *Tabi, Angola, Tabi *Zala, Angola, Zala *Kikabo *Barra do Dande *Muxiluando *Kixico *Kanacassala *Gombe, Angola, Gombe *Kicunzo *Kage, Angola, Kage *Mabubas *Caxito *Ucua *Piri, Angola, Piri *Kibaxe *São José das Matas *Kiaje *Paredes, Angola, Paredes *Bula-Atumba *Pango-luquem *Kabiri, Angola, Kabiri *Bom Jesus, Angola, Bom Jesus *Catete (Bengo), Catete *Calomboloca *Kazua *Muxima *Dembo Chio *Mumbondo *Kixinje Benguela (province), Benguela Province *Alda Lara (commune), Alda Lara *Asfalto, Angola, Asfalto *Babaera *Balombo *Benfica, Angola, Benfica *Benguela *Biópio *Bocoio *Candumbo *Catumbela *Chigongo *Chikuma, ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
