Quitexe

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Quitexe
Quitexe (Angola)
Quitexe
Quitexe
Coordinates 7 ° 57 ′  S , 15 ° 2 ′  E Coordinates: 7 ° 57 ′  S , 15 ° 2 ′  E
Basic data
Country Angola

province

Uíge
Município Quitexe
ISO 3166-2 AO-UIG
Comuna Quitexe
Residents 31,889 (2008)
politics
mayor Salvador Lindo Bernardo

Quitexe (also Dange Quitexe or Dange ) is a small town and a district in Angola .

The lake Lagoa do Feitiço ( Portuguese for: lake of witchcraft), located in the district of Quitexe and inviting for bathing, is known nationwide , about 70 km south of the provincial capital Uíge . Legend has it that if you touch its water, you will challenge death.

The Austrian botanist and Africa explorer Friedrich Welwitsch worked in 1856 in what is now the Quitexe district, in Cambamba .

history

In the middle of the 17th century, the colonial power Portugal began to expand its sphere of influence from the coast to the interior of Angola, into the territory of the Kingdom of the Congo . The two main northerly directions went from Luanda and the more northerly M'banza Kongo . The military expeditions reached Encoje from both directions, captured it and fortified it. Later, the Forte de São José do Encoje was built here in 1759. It extended the military fortress line to control the area, to Massangano (1533/1583), Muxima (1599), Cambambe (1604) and Ambaca (1614).

In 1912 the village, now called Quitexe, was elevated to a small town ( Vila ). In the course of the administrative reforms of Angola under Governor General Norton de Matos in 1921, the military district of São José do Encoje became the civilian district of Encoje, based in Quitexe. Until the creation of the Uige district in 1946 (or de facto 1961), the Encoje district belonged to the Cuanza Norte district (today Cuanza Norte province ).

Quitexe was in the target area of ​​the first raids of the independence movement UPA ( União das Populações de Angola , since 1962 FNLA ) on March 15, 1961, with which the Portuguese colonial war began in Angola. Quitexe then became a military base for the Portuguese Armed Forces until Angola's independence in 1975.

administration

Quitexe is the seat of a district of the same name ( Município ) in the province of Uíge . 31,889 people live in the Quitexe district (extrapolated estimate 2008). The 2014 population census is intended to provide accurate population data in the future.

The Quitexe district is made up of four municipalities (Comunas):

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Article from August 25, 2013 about new equipment of the district hospital for the 101st city anniversary by Quitexe , state news agency ANGOP , accessed on June 3, 2014
  2. ^ Joost De Raeymaeker: À Descoberta de Angola . 1st edition, Oficina do Livro, Alfragide 2012, p. 189 ( ISBN 978-989-741-009-3 )
  3. ↑ Entry of the Encoje Fortress on www.fortalezas.org, accessed on June 3, 2014
  4. ↑ a b History of Quitexe ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.muanadamba.net, accessed June 3, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muanadamba.net
  5. ^ Carlos de Matos Gomes, Fernando Farinha: Guerra Colonial. To repórter em Angola . 2nd edition, Editorial Notícias, Lisbon 2001, p. 50, ISBN 972-46-1299-6
  6. ↑ Article of March 19, 2008 about the expansion of the capacities of the Dange-Quitexe hospital , state news agency ANGOP, accessed on June 2, 2014