Cuando Cubango Province

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Cuando Cubango Province
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Basic data
Country Angola
Capital Menongue
surface 199,049 km²
Residents 620,000 (2019)
density 3.1 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 AO-CCU
Website www.kuandokubango.gov.ao ( Portuguese )
politics
Governador Júlio Marcelino Vieira Bessa

Coordinates: 15 °  S , 18 °  E

Cuando Cubango , also Kuando Kubango , is a province of the African state of Angola .

The province's name is derived from the Cuando and Cubango rivers , which flow through the eastern and western edges of the province.

administration

The province has an area of ​​199,049 km². The provincial capital is Menongue.

The following districts ( Municípios ) are in the province:

corruption

In May 2019, several members of Governador Pedro Mutindi's cabinet were arrested on suspicion of corruption. These are the cabinet directors Jossi Hermenegildo Pedro and Isaac Severino Kanjengo and the Vice-Governadora Sara Luísa Mateus, who is also a member of the MPLA's Central Committee . The previous governador of the province, General Francisco Hígino Carneiro , was accused of misappropriating public funds intended for the construction of hospitals, schools and apartments for state officials for the construction of his private 30-room lodge . In July 2019, Governador Pedro Mutindi was also dismissed by President João Lourenço and replaced by the economist Júlio Marcelino Vieira Bessa. Reasons were not given.

Residents

Around 620,000 people live in the province (2019 estimate). The 2014 census showed 534,000 inhabitants. According to 1988 U.S. government statistics, the provincial population was 125,600 with only an estimated 3,600 living in urban areas.

The population consists of a number of small ethnic groups, some of which belong to the Ganguela category , some to the Xindonga , and some to the Khoisan . All of them live from a modest subsistence agriculture . The civil war in Angola affected them e.g. Some of them were considerably damaged because the UNITA headquarters was in the region near Jamba .

National parks

The two largest national parks of Angola are located in Cuando Cubango . The Mavinga and Luengue-Luiana National Parks, founded in 2011 in the southeast of the province. The Mavinga National Park has an area of ​​around 46,000 km² (roughly the size of Lower Saxony), the Luengue-Luiana National Park an area of ​​22,610 km² (roughly the size of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). It borders Namibia in the south and Zambia in the east . Both are part of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA), in which 36 national parks and reserves from Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia to Zimbabwe are combined with a total area of ​​520,000 km². At the beginning of 2019, 14 species of wild animals were counted in the Luengue-Luiana National Park, but the "classic" wild animals of Africa such as elephants, giraffes, rhinos or lions are missing. Two years earlier there were elephants there that had returned from Botswana , but they were killed by poachers.

Web links

Commons : Cuando Cubango Province  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Governador do Kuando Kubango prevê transformar a província cuandocubango.gov.ao 7 October 2012 Design.
  2. ↑ O saque as vice governadora do Cuando Cubango makaangola.org , May 16, 2019 accessed on June 21 of 2019.
  3. ↑ General Higino enriquece com dinheiro público makangola.org , January 31, 2019, accessed June 21, 2019.
  4. ↑ Angola: President Sacks, appoints Government members allafrica.com , July 24, 2019. Retrieved on 28 July 2019
  5. ↑ Population statistics citypopulation.de , accessed on June 21, 2019.
  6. ↑ José Redinha, Etnisas e culturas de Angola , Luanda: Instituto de Investigação Científica de Angola, 1975
  7. ↑ Inge Brinkman: City, Country and Bush: War, Identity and Cultural Landscape in South-East Angola. In: Historical Anthropology. 8 (3) 2000, pp. 383-409.
  8. ↑ Parque Nacional de Mavinga biodiversidade-angola.com , accessed on June 21, 2019.
  9. ↑ Protected area in Africa welt.de , February 4, 2019, accessed on June 21, 2019.
  10. ↑ Parque Nacional de Luengue-Luiana regista 14 espécies de animais opais.co.ao , February 1, 2019, accessed on June 21, 2019.
  11. ↑ Elefantes regressam ao seu habitat natural jornaldeangola.sapo.ao , August 29, 2017, accessed on June 21, 2019.