Uíge
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| Coordinates | 7 ° 37 ′ S , 15 ° 3 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Angola | ||
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| Município | Uíge | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | AO-UIG | ||
| Comuna | Uíge | ||
| Residents | 599,000 (2019) | ||
| founding | 1917 | ||
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| mayor | Altamiro Benjamim | ||
 Street scene in Uíge
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Uíge (also Uíje ) is a city and a district in Angola with around 600,000 inhabitants (as of 2019).
climate
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Uíge
Source: climate-data.org
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history
Uíge was founded by decree of April 6, 1917 as a military base and town by the Portuguese colonial administration . Shortly before, the captain Manuel José Pereira had set up a fortified base here, on the way from a reconnaissance expedition to Camabatela back to the Fortaleza de Bembe , the fortress of Bembe . The name is probably borrowed from the Kikongo word for arrival, Uigidi , in connection with the arriving Portuguese soldiers.
Uíge belonged to Bembe before it became the seat of its own circle on July 25, 1956. Previously, the small town ( Vila ) Uíge was renamed Vila Marechal Carmona or Vila Carmona for short in 1955, after the Portuguese President António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona, who died in 1951 . After it was later elevated to the city ( Cidade ), it was only called Carmona. After independence in 1975, the city gave up its Portuguese name again and has been called Uíge again since then.
Uíge is in the area where the Portuguese colonial war began in 1961. Accordingly, the Portuguese armed forces and the later FNLA rebels undertook a large number of operations here, until the fighting intensified after Angola's independence in 1975 and the outbreak of the Angolan civil war (1975-2002) and increasingly shifted to the south. Uíge then suffered less damage than the previously largely spared south of the country. However, since reconstruction in the country could only start noticeably since the mid-2000s, Uíge has only experienced positive development again in the last few years. The coffee cultivation in Uíge, which was an important national economic factor until 1975, is still a long way from its former importance, so that the development remains behind some other regions for the time being. (Status 2014)
administration
Uíge is the seat of a district of the same name ( Município ) in the province of Uíge . It consists of only one community (Comuna), which is also called Uíge. The city had around 520,000 inhabitants at the 2014 census, and the estimate for 2019 is 600,000.
education
In the course of the state reconstruction programs, a number of new schools were built in Uíge. In 2013, 27,500 students were taught in 1,323 classrooms at 1,018 schools in the district. There is the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação University of Education and the Universidade Kimba Vita , which cooperates in research with the Technical University of Dresden .
economy
Uíge is considered a coffee production capital in Angola. Before Angola's independence in 1975, there were up to 112 coffee peeling systems here, and local production made a significant contribution to the 204,000 tons of coffee achieved between 1973 and 1974. This made Angola the largest coffee producer in Africa. With the outbreak of the Angolan civil war in 1975, the Portuguese coffee planters left their plantations and coffee growing fell into disrepair. Since 2009, the cultivation of coffee has been increasingly promoted here. Around 100 former coffee plantations were reactivated in Uíge, and the state coffee institute ( Instituto Nacional do Café , INCA) offers loans and other support programs in cooperation with various banks.
In addition, manioc , oil palms , peanuts , sweet potatoes , beans, cocoa and sisal are grown in the district of Uíge to produce sisal fiber .
traffic
There is an airport three kilometers northwest of the city, IATA code UGO.
A newly built country road connects the city with Caxito
Sports
The football club União Sport Clube do Uíge , founded in 2012, plays in the highest Angolan league, the Girabola (as of 2014). União do Uíge plays its home games at Estádio 4 de Janeiro , which has a capacity of 1,500 people , and where Santa Rita FC , which is also based here, plays its home games. On February 10, 2017, the first day of the Girabola 2017 , a serious accident occurred here: when Santa Rita FC played against CRD Libolo , access to the stadium ranks collapsed, 17 people died in the crowd and 59 others were killed injured, sometimes life-threatening. Other football clubs are the Clube Desportivo O Construtor do Uíge, founded in 1978, and the Agremiação Desportiva Stad'Uíge club , which has been in existence since 2010, has now been promoted to the second division, which Gira Angola has promoted, and which, in addition to football, also operates athletics and cycling.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Article of December 30, 2013 on the annual review of the district council of Uíge , state news agency ANGOP , accessed on April 19, 2014
- ↑ Article from July 12, 2009 on the 92nd anniversary of the city ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2014 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. , Website of the Jornal de Angola newspaper , accessed April 19, 2014
- ↑ Population statistics citypopulation.de , accessed on June 16, 2019.
- ↑ Uíge: Universidades Técnica de Dresden e Kimpa Vita recomendam reforço da cooperação em investigação portaldeangola.com , June 9, 2017, accessed on June 16, 2019.
- ^ Jean Charles Pinheira : Em paz por terras de Angola . 1st edition, Zebra Publicações, Lisbon 2010, p. 64f ( ISBN 978-989-8391-03-2 )
- ^ Article of June 1, 2009 in O País newspaper , accessed April 19, 2014
- ↑ www.ao.all.biz , accessed on April 19, 2014
- ^ Page about the club on the Liga Girabola website , accessed on April 19, 2014
- ↑ Uíge: Decassete mortos na partida de futebol entre Santa Rita e Recreativo do Libolo - "Uíge: 17 dead in the football game between Santa Rita and Recreativo do Libolo" , report by the Angolan news agency ANGOP of February 10, 2017, accessed on August 12, 2018
