Menongue

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Menongue
Menongue (Angola)
Menongue
Menongue
Coordinates 14 ° 40 ′  S , 17 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 14 ° 40 ′  S , 17 ° 40 ′  E
Basic data
Country Angola

province

Cuando Cubango
Município Menongue
ISO 3166-2 AO-CCU
Comuna Menongue
surface 23,565 km²
Residents 372,500 (2019)
density 15.8  Ew. / km²

Menongue (before 1975: Serpa Pinto ) is a city and a large county in the central southeast of Angola . It is the seat of the Diocese of Menongue .

climate

Menongue has a warm, temperate climate. Winter is much drier than summer. The humidity is relatively low throughout the year.

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Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm
Source: climate-data.org
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Menongue
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Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 28.2 27.9 28.1 28.3 26.8 24.9 24.8 28 30.6 31.4 29.6 28.6 O 28.1
Min. Temperature (° C) 15th 14.7 14.4 12.8 7.4 4.1 3.9 6.8 12.1 15.2 15th 15.4 O 11.4
Temperature (° C) 21.6 21.3 21.2 20.5 17.1 14.5 14.3 17.4 21.3 23.3 22.3 22nd O 19.7
Precipitation ( mm ) 93 167 188 73 5 1 0 0 6th 46 120 171 Σ 870
Rainy days ( d ) 26th 21st 28 16 1 0 0 0 2 10 20th 19th Σ 143
Humidity ( % ) 75 81 80 70 53 41 40 24 21st 31 46 55 O 51.3
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history

The city was named after the Portuguese explorer Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto (1846–1900), who explored southern Africa in the second half of the 19th century. Several striking buildings from Portuguese colonial history (until 1975) have been preserved, including the town hall ( Edifício dos Paços do Concelho de Serpa Pinto ), which was built between 1940 and 1955 , the governor's palace from the 1960s ( Palácio do Governador de Serpa Pinto ), and the administration of what was then the Menongue district ( Palácio do Governo do Distrito de Menongue ), established between 1930 and 1955 .

After Angola's independence in 1975, the place was given its current name Menongue. The name previously referred to the district (from 1975: province), which had its seat in Serpa Pinto. On October 21, 1961, it was raised to the city category. At that time it only had 30,000 inhabitants.

administration

Menongue is the seat of a district ( Município ) of the province Cuando Cubango , of which it is also the capital. The district has about 372,500 inhabitants (2019 estimate) and an area of ​​23,565 km² (corresponds to the size of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). The 2014 census showed 321,000 inhabitants.

Three municipalities (Comunas) make up the Menongue district:

traffic

The city is the end point of the southern railway from Moçâmedes on the Atlantic coast, the " Namibebahn ".

There is a road connection to Katwitwi in Namibia .

Menongue has an airport ( IATA airport code : SPP; ICAO code : FNME).

education

There are a total of 84 schools in the Município, including the Instituto Médio de Administração e Gestão (IMAG), the Instituto Médio Agrário do Missombo agricultural school , the Instituto Médio Normal de Educação teacher training center and the Escola de Formação de Técnicos training center for medical-technical assistants de Saúde , the "International Wildlife Ranger School" Escola Internacional de Fiscais Ambientais and the Universidade do Cuito Cuanavale .

Sports

The football club 4 de Abril FC do Cuando Cubango is based in the city. He rose to the Girabola for the first time in the 2016 season , the top division in the country, but could not hold the class at the end of the season. The club welcomes its guests in the Estádio Municipal de Menongue , also known as Campo da Banca , with a capacity of 5,000 . There also carries Cuando Cubango FC their home games. The club rose to the first division at the end of 2017 and then dropped its previous name Casa Militar .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on April 14, 2014
  2. ↑ http://www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=32719
  3. ↑ http://www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=32594
  4. ↑ a b Menongue celebra 56º aniversário jornaldeangola.sapo.ao , October 21, 2017, accessed on June 21, 2019.
  5. ↑ Bevölkerungsstatistik.de ( Memento of the original of July 13, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on June 21, 2019. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.citypopulation.de
  6. ↑ Menongue Airport ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 www.flightaz.com, accessed April 15, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / flightaz.com
  7. ↑ UNEP Head Opens Wildlife Ranger School in Angola unenvironment.org , June 4, 2016, accessed June 23, 2019.