Quiçama

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Quiçama
Quiçama (Angola)
Quiçama
Quiçama
Coordinates 9 ° 31 ′  S , 13 ° 58 ′  E Coordinates: 9 ° 31 ′  S , 13 ° 58 ′  E
Basic data
Country Angola

province

Luanda
Município Quiçama
ISO 3166-2 AO-LUA
surface 12,046 km²
Residents 25,086 (2014)
density 2.1  Ew. / km²
politics
mayor Ana Maria da Silva e Silva

Quiçama (also Quissama , occasionally Kissama ) is a district in Angola , near the capital Luanda . The district is sometimes called Muxima after its capital .

administration

Until 2011: Location of the district of Quiçama (red) in the province of Bengo (yellow). Quiçama has been part of the newly formed Luanda Province since 2011

The district ( Município ) Quiçama covers an area of ​​12,046 km² and has around 25,000 inhabitants (2014 census). The district's capital is Muxima .

Since the changes in the administrative structure in 2011, Quiçama has been a district ( Município ) of the province of Luanda , previously it was part of the province of Bengo .

Five municipalities (Comunas) form the Quiçama district:

Quiçama National Park

The Quiçama National Park is located in Quiçama County . It is about 70 km south of Luanda and has an area of ​​9600 km². Established as a protected hunting area in 1938, it was established as a national park in 1957 . It is now one of the six national parks in Angola .

Due to the turmoil of the Angolan Civil War (1975–2002), the park's flora and fauna suffered greatly, and the populations of even the Big Five are not yet known. In the meantime, the park has taken initiatives, in particular to reintroduce elephants. In 2017 there was a major fire that lasted seven days and destroyed 86 hectares of nature and numerous wild animals.

The park has guest houses, a 110 km long coastline and a diverse population of monkeys, antelopes, elephants, giraffes, wildebeest, zebras, crocodiles, manatees and birds.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article of February 5, 2014 on new public construction projects in Quiçama district , state news agency ANGOP , accessed on April 29, 2014
  2. ↑ Entry on Muxima ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2018 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. from the website www.guiaturismoangola.com (Portuguese), accessed June 3, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.guiaturismodeangola.com
  3. ↑ Censo 2014 censo.ine.gov.ao , accessed on May 16, 2019
  4. ↑ Article of July 25, 2011 on the new administrative structure of Luanda , website of the newspaper O País , accessed on April 29, 2014
  5. ↑ Parque Nacional da Quiçama biodiversidade-angola.com , accessed June 1, 2019.
  6. ↑ Angola: Parque da Quiçama volta à rotina angop.ao , December 13, 2017, accessed on June 1, 2019.
  7. ↑ Untouched nature in Angola: insider tip for tourists and investors euronews.com , February 13, 2019, accessed on June 4, 2019.
  8. ↑ Website of the National Park ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2015 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. (English), accessed April 29, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kissama.org