Negage
| Negage | |||
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| Coordinates | 7 ° 45 ′ S , 15 ° 16 ′ E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Angola | ||
| Uíge | |||
| Município | Negage | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | AO-UIG | ||
| Comuna | Negage | ||
| surface | 2019 km² | ||
| Residents | 230,180 (2014) | ||
| density | 114 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1925 | ||
| politics | |||
| mayor | Rosa Pedro Afonso Garcia | ||
Negage (also Negaje ) is a city and a district in Angola .
history
Ngage was the Kimbundu name of a local village when Portuguese settlers settled here and founded Negage in 1925. Negage belonged to the administrative post in the district Dimuca Ambaca , Cuanza Norte Province . Later it became a separate administrative post in the district Ambaca before the county in 1955 Bembe in the province of Uige has been assigned. In 1956 it became the seat of its own circle there. Negage was raised to a small town ( Vila ) in 1958 , before it was given town status ( Cidade ) on June 26, 1970 .
With the outbreak of the Portuguese colonial war in Angola in 1961, the Negage airfield became an important air base for the Portuguese armed forces as Aeródromo Base - AB nº3 .
administration
Negage is the seat of a district of the same name ( Município ) in the province of Uíge . The district covers an area of 2019 km² with around 230,180 inhabitants (extrapolated estimate 2014). From now on, the 2014 census should provide reliable population data.
The district of Negage is made up of three communities (Comunas):
Transport and economy
Negage has an airport with the IATA airport code GXG and the ICAO code FNNG. It served the Portuguese Air Force as an operational base in the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1975).
As part of the infrastructure measures taken by the government after the peace treaty in 2002, various new roads were built up to 2011, which meanwhile connects Negage again with the provincial capital and surrounding towns.
Above all, the improved road conditions are stimulating agriculture in the district, especially in coffee cultivation. Other important cultivated products are cassava , mountain rice , sweet potatoes , beans, corn , bananas and other fruits such as passion fruit , pineapple , goiaba or citrus fruits . Cattle breeding is also gaining in importance, with a registered herd of 1,465 cattle, 27,460 goats, 38,161 sheep and 30,150 poultry in the district (as of spring 2014). There are 50 production cooperatives in the district with 172,253 members and a large number of smallholders and family businesses, of which 17,644 are affiliated to the state Empresa de Desenvolvimento Agrário (EDA, German: Agricultural Development Company). The EDA makes u. a. Offers for further training and distributes seeds.
sons and daughters of the town
- Isabel Estrada Carvalhais (* 1973), Portuguese politician, political scientist and university lecturer, MEP since 2019
Web links
- Negage County profile on the 2014 Census Official Website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article of January 2, 2013 on the appointment of new mayors in the province of Uíge , state news agency ANGOP , accessed on May 25, 2014
- ↑ History of the Negage district ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2014 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. at www.muanadamba.net, accessed May 25, 2014
- ↑ a b Article of January 7, 2014 about agricultural activity in Negage County in spring 2014 , state news agency ANGOP, accessed on May 25, 2014
- ↑ Project descriptions for the streets Kifangondo - Negage and Negage - 31 de Janeiro by the Nuremberg engineering company GAUFF, accessed on May 25, 2014
