Cabinda (city)

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Cabinda
Cabinda (Angola)
Cabinda
Cabinda
Coordinates 5 ° 34 ′  S , 12 ° 11 ′  E Coordinates: 5 ° 34 ′  S , 12 ° 11 ′  E
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
Basic data
Country Angola

province

Cabinda
Município Cabinda
ISO 3166-2 AO-CAB
Comuna Cabinda
surface 1823 km²
Residents 719,000 (2019)
density 394.4  Ew. / km²
politics
mayor Artur Manuel do Carmo
Location of the municipality of Cabinda in the province of Cabinda
Location of the municipality of Cabinda in the province of Cabinda
Cabindas town center

Cabinda , also known as Tchiowa or Chioua by the locals , is a city in the Angolan province of Cabinda , which is striving for independence and which is surrounded as a northern exclave by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo or borders the Atlantic Ocean with its coast to the west.

Climate table

Cabinda
Climate diagram
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Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm
Source: climate-data.org
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Cabinda
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 30th 30.6 31 30.7 29 27 25.3 25.6 26.8 28.4 20.1 29.6 O 27.8
Min. Temperature (° C) 22.8 22.7 23 22.9 21.9 19.1 17.6 18.5 20.3 22.5 23 23 O 21.4
Temperature (° C) 26.4 26.6 27 26.8 25.4 23 21.4 22nd 23.5 25.4 26th 26.3 O 25th
Precipitation ( mm ) 103 146 170 148 52 0 0 1 6th 39 138 82 Σ 885
Rainy days ( d ) 23 24 23 25th 15th 1 4th 5 9 19th 21st 26th Σ 195
Humidity ( % ) 82 82 81 81 82 83 83 82 83 82 82 83 O 82.2
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history

The Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão arrived here on his second voyage and is considered the first European official in Cabinda. With the help of alliances with rulers from the Kingdom of the Congo , Portugal was able to avert possession by other European states several times. Particularly noteworthy are the destruction of a first English fort in 1723 with the help of the Kingdom of Ngoyo , and the ultimately unsuccessful French attack on the Portuguese fortress of Santa Maria de Cabinda in 1784, which led to the recognition of Portuguese sovereignty over Cabinda by France in 1786.

From the 1850s to the 1880s, whalers from the United States made frequent and regular visits to Cabinda Bay, where they mainly hunted humpback whales between August and October . By selling provisions and firewood to the crews, the African middlemen in the coastal trade expanded their business beyond the slave trade. Especially after the slavery collapsed in the mid-1860s, some men from the bay sought and found employment opportunities in whaling. Some used this work to migrate on whalers to other coastal areas of Angola or even to the United States.

The city of Cabinda was founded by the Portuguese colonial power in particular to ship slaves. Economically, the kingdom of Ngoyo was essentially based on the slave trade with Portugal. The fall of the empire led to the Treaty of Simulambuco on February 1, 1885, with which Ngoyo submitted to the Protectorate of Portugal in order to protect himself from being taken over by Belgium and thus not becoming part of the Belgian Congo . At the Berlin Congo Conference in 1884/85, Belgium's King Leopold II was able to enforce access to the Atlantic Ocean along the Congo, which finally separated Cabinda from Angola. It was not until the administrative reforms under the Portuguese dictator Salazar in 1956 that Cabinda was again placed under direct administration by the governor in Angola for cost reasons.

The previous small town ( Vila ) Cabinda was elevated to a town ( Cidade ) on May 28, 1956 .

administration

Cabinda city is the seat of a district of the same name ( Município ) in the province of Cabinda . The district had around 625,000 inhabitants at the 2014 census. The estimate for 2019 is 719,000 inhabitants on 1823 km². In the district of Cabinda, almost nine out of ten inhabitants (88%) live in a quarter of the area.

There are three communities (Comunas) in the Cabinda district:

economy

70% of Angolan's oil is produced off the coast of Cabinda . The city's seaport is also important. In July 2019, Angola's largest hotel with 600 rooms was opened in Cabinda.

Sports

The Estádio Nacional de Chiazi , with a capacity of 20,000 , was built for the 2010 African Cup of Nations. In addition to various cultural and sporting events, the stadium will also continue to be used for football. The Futebol Clube de Cabinda , founded in 1956 as a subsidiary of FC Porto , welcomes its visiting teams here. He last played in 2011 in the highest Angolan league, the Girabola , only to be relegated.

The Sporting Clube Petróleos de Cabinda , newly founded in 1975 as a branch club of Sporting Lisbon, entered the top division of Angola in Girabola in 2014 after being promoted to the top division in 2013 . He plays his home games in the 9,000-seat Estádio do Tafe . Other football clubs include Sport Cabinda e Benfica , a subsidiary of Benfica Lisbon .

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Cabinda (city)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article from March 25, 2014 on the meeting of the district council , state news agency ANGOP , accessed on April 24, 2014
  2. ↑ LaGamma, Alisa: Kongo - Power and Majesty . The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2015.
  3. ↑ a b Portrait of the Cabinda Province ( memento of the original from July 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at ww.teiaportuguesa.com, accessed April 24, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.teiaportuguesa.com
  4. ↑ Felix Schürmann: The gray undercurrent: whalers and coastal societies on the deep beaches of Africa, 1770-1920. Frankfurt a. M./New York 2017, pp. 441–484.
  5. ↑ Brief portrait of the Cabinda district at www.guiaturismodeangola.com, accessed on April 24, 2014
  6. ↑ Population statistics citypopulation.de , accessed on June 10, 2019.
  7. ^ After the Boom: Angola's Recurring Oil Challenges in a New Context (PDF) p. 5, oxfordenergy.org , May 2017, accessed on June 10, 2019.
  8. ↑ Thomson Group International inaugura a 1 de Julho maior hotel de Angola vanguarda.co.ao , June 5, 2019, accessed June 10, 2019.
  9. ↑ The Futebol Clube de Cabinda at www.fussballzz.de, accessed on April 24, 2014
  10. ↑ The Sporting Clube Cabinda at www.fussballzz.de, accessed on April 24, 2014