Sumbe
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| Coordinates | 11 ° 9 ′ S , 13 ° 54 ′ E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Angola | ||
| Cuanza Sul | |||
| Município | Sumbe | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | AO-CUS | ||
| Comuna | Sumbe | ||
| surface | 5100 km² | ||
| Residents | 305,802 (2013) | ||
| density | 60 Ew. / km² | ||
| politics | |||
| mayor | Neto Makandumba | ||
 On the beach at Sumbe
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Sumbe (until 1975: Novo Redondo ) is the capital of the Cuanza Sul province in Angola . According to official but outdated lists, it has less than 40,000 inhabitants.
history
Sumbe was founded on January 7, 1769 by the Portuguese military and colonial administrator, the Capitão Mor de Muxima José Rodrigues. This was preceded by a decision by the Angolan governor Inocêncio de Sousa Coutinho , who in 1768 commissioned a group of engineers to determine a suitable place to found the place. The place was called Novo Redondo (Eng .: New Redondo, with reference to the Portuguese place Redondo ). In 1785 the place received a stone fortress, in 1811 its first church, and in 1872 a hospital.
Today, however, the rise to a small town ( Vila ) in 1917 is celebrated as the foundation . In 1955 the Portuguese President Craveiro Lopes visited the place, which then became the capital of the Kwanza Sul district. Novo Redondo was elevated to a city ( Cidade ) in 1956 .
After the country gained its independence from Portugal in 1975, the city received its current name.
In the course of the Angolan civil war , units of the UNITA rebel army made an attempt here on March 25, 1984 to conquer the city, which was repulsed by Cuban-Angolan forces.
Sports
On September 10, 2010, the Estádio Municipal do Sumbe Comandante Hoji Ya Henda was opened on the site of the previous municipal stadium , with a tournament of the Angolan professional teams Kabuscorp , 1º de Agosto and CRD Libolo , and the U19 selection of Sporting Lisbon from Portugal. The stadium has a capacity of 3500 and is home to the Andorinhas Futebol Clube do Sumbe football club .
Beach volleyball is popular on Sumbe Beach.
Culture
The FestiSumbe , organized annually by the provincial government, is considered the largest international music festival in Angola. It took place on September 17th and 18th, 2010 for the tenth time.
traffic
Sumbe is located on the Atlantic coast , but does not have a notable port, the nearest port is in Porto Amboim about 100 km north. For this, Sumbe has a small regional airport on the outskirts, which u. a. is served by TAAG .
The road, which has been newly built since the mid-2000s, comes from Luanda, 335 km north and leads to Lobito 170 km south, is the most important gateway to the city. The overland buses of the SGO and the regional buses of the TCUL drive to the city.
administration
Sumbe is the seat of a district of the same name ( Municipio ) in the province of Cuanza Sul . The city with around 40,000 inhabitants is also the capital of the province.
323,000 people (extrapolated estimate 2019) live on 5,100 square kilometers in Sumbe County. The 2014 census showed around 280,000 inhabitants.
Four communities (Comunas) form the Sumbe district:
literature
- G. Tams, The Portuguese possessions in South-West Africa: a travel report , 1845, p. 76f, digitized
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Article from September 23, 2010 ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2013 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. in the weekly O País , accessed December 3, 2013
- ↑ Article of May 28, 2013 in the Agência Angola Press , accessed on December 3, 2013
- ↑ Entry on the province of Kwanza Sul in the Infopédia , the online encyclopedia of the Porto Editora , accessed on December 3, 2013
- ↑ Cuban article from March 25, 2011 ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2011 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. , accessed December 3, 2013
- ^ Article from September 16, 2010 in the Angolan sports newspaper Jornal dos Desportos (Portuguese), accessed on December 3, 2013
- ^ Joost De Raeymaeker: À Descoberta De Angola . 1st edition, Verlag LeYa , Alfragide 2012, p. 61, p. 86f ( ISBN 978-989-741-009-3 )
- ↑ Population statistics citypopulation.de , accessed on June 24, 2019.
