Tala Mungongo
| Tala Mungongo | |||
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| Coordinates | 9 ° 43 ′ S , 17 ° 14 ′ E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Angola | ||
| Malanje | |||
| Município | Cambundi catembo | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | AO-MAL | ||
| Comuna | Tala Mungongo | ||
| height | 1150 m | ||
| Residents | 1639 (2010) | ||
| politics | |||
| mayor | Walter Lemos | ||
Tala Mungongo is a village and a municipality in the Angolan province of Malanje.
The Angolan author Filipe Correia de Sá published a novel in April 2014, which he named after this place and which is based on a local legend.
Geography and traffic
The place is located at an altitude of 1150 meters on a plateau about 90 kilometers east of the provincial capital Malanje and 80 kilometers northwest of the district town Cambundi-Catembo .
Since 2009, the place has an asphalt road connecting it to the county town of Cambundi-Catembo, the national road (Estrada Nacional) number 230.
administration
Tala Mungongo is the seat of a municipality of the same name (Comuna) in the district ( Município ) of Cambundi-Catembo , in the province of Malanje . The municipality has 1639 inhabitants (2010 estimate). From now on, the 2014 census should provide reliable population data.
Population and economy
The local ethnic group is the Twokwo. The Tchianda dance, similar to samba, is popular .
The community's population lives predominantly from agriculture, which is practiced here almost exclusively in subsistence farming . By granting agricultural loans for the agricultural production cooperatives, the municipal administration expects an increase in production beyond the company's own needs in the future.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Article of July 26, 2011 about expected agricultural loans in the community ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from the website of the national radio station Rádio Nacional de Angola , accessed on April 29, 2014
- ↑ Article from April 25, 2014 on the publication of the book Tala Mungongo , state news agency ANGOP , accessed on April 29, 2014
- ↑ Article on book publication on www.redeangola.info, accessed on April 29, 2014
- ↑ Article of June 6, 2009 by the state news agency ANGOP , accessed on April 29, 2014
- ^ Dancing People 2009 in Tala Mungongo on the seventh anniversary of the end of the civil war , video recording on YouTube , accessed on April 29, 2014
