Viana (Angola)
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 54 ′ S , 13 ° 23 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Angola | ||
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| Município | Viana | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | AO-LUA | ||
| surface | 1344 km² | ||
| Residents | 1,900,000 (2019) | ||
| density | 1,413.7 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1963 | ||
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| Administrador Municipal | José Moreno | ||
 Street scene in front of the train station in Viana
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Viana is a city and a município (administrative district) in the metropolitan area of the Angolan capital Luanda . Viana is about 90 minutes by car from downtown Luanda.
Viana is the seat of the Catholic diocese of Viana .
History and urban development
On May 11, 1960, the administrative district (Circunscrição) Viana was created with an area of 820 km². It included the administrative center of Barra do Cuanza as well as Belas, Boa Vista and Cacuaco. With the administrative reform of May 27, 1965, Viana was declared an urban district (Município) on December 13, 1965, but lost Cacuaco. Since another administrative reform on January 18, 2012, Viana consists of a municipality and six municipal districts. In 2009 over 3,000 families were forcibly relocated from the Ilha de Luanda to the Zango district. They were housed in tents with the government promising to provide them with houses within four months. Since the government has not kept its promise even after ten years, an ever-growing musseque has been created from tin huts.
Because of its proximity to the city of Luanda, Viana has experienced a very strong increase in population and industry in recent years. In the Zango district in particular, many new residential buildings have been built, such as the “Zango 8000” residential complex, which opened in 2018, with 8,000 apartments and single-family homes, and the “Vida Pacífica” development with around 2500 apartments. Like the new nearby Angola International Airport, it was built by the Chinese company China International Fund , which also owns the settlement.
administration
Viana is a district ( Município ) in the province of Luanda . The district is made up of the municipality (Comuna) Calumbo and the urban districts (Distritos Urbanos):
- Viana
- Zango
- Estalagem
- Kikuxi
- Baía
- Vila Flôr
The city is bordered by Cacuaco County to the north, Ícolo e Bengo County to the east , Cazenga County to the northwest , Quiçama County to the south and Kilamba Kiaxi , Talatona and Belas County to the west .
Residents
The approximately 1.9 million inhabitants of the city (2019 estimate), which has become a kind of suburb of Luanda due to the population growth in the entire region, live on an area of 1344 square kilometers approx. 15-30 kilometers east of Luanda . In addition to the indigenous Ambundu , it now has an unusually high concentration of Ovimbundu , who moved away from the Central Highlands because of the civil war of 1975-2002 . It is also home to around 6,000 long-term refugees, mostly from Shaba Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The 2014 census showed a population of 1.52 million in Viana County.
economy
In Viana there is the special economic zone Zona Económica Especial (ZEE), also called Pólo de Desenvolvimento Industrial de Viana . More than 600 companies are located in Angola's largest industrial area, in addition to manufacturing, building materials factories and logistics companies, Acail, a manufacturer of steel products and gases, the Angolan soft drinks market leader Refriango , which started a brewery in 2016 with an investment of 50 million US dollars Founded the “Tigre” brand or the Chinese-Angolan brewery Lowenda Brewery Company , milk and juice processing and packaging companies, a vinegar factory and other food processing companies. A service center for vehicles and construction equipment has been set up near the new airport on an area of 14,000 m².
Since 2006, Viana has also been home to the large market, Mercado do Km 30 , where many children worked as salespeople until a decree by the market manager at the end of 2018.
traffic
With its railway station is the place to the Luanda Railway connected to the port of Luanda to Malanje connects. In 2005, the railway tracks were repaired after the destruction of the civil war. Since then there has been an hourly connection to the capital. In July 2010, a twice-weekly freight train connection to Dondo began its service.
education
The Universidade Agostinho Neto , the Universidade Jean Piaget , the Instituto Superior Técnico de Angola and the National Police School Escola Nacional de Polícia de Protecção e Intervenção are located in Viana .
Sports
In Viana is the Estádio dos Santos , built in 2003. It has 17,000 seats and is mainly used for football matches. Originally it was the home stadium of the Santos Futebol Clube de Angola (Santos FC), a football club founded in 2002 based on the Brazilian FC Santos . Santos FC won the national cup ( Taça de Angola ) in 2008 and the Supercup ( Supertaça de Angola ) in 2009 . In 2013 he finished the season in last place in the Girabola and was relegated to the second division, the Gira Angola .
With the help of the NBA , new sports facilities were opened in Viana before the African basketball championship in 2007 . a. by the Mayor of Viana, José Morena, the American Ambassador Cynthia Efird, and the American basketball stars Ruth Riley and Sam Perkins .
sons and daughters of the town
- Alberto Chakusanga (1979-2010), radio journalist
Web links
- Provincial information from the Angolan Embassy, Berlin ( Memento from April 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- Profile of Viana County on the official website of the 2014 census
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article of February 14, 2014 on the mayor's report on the state of school buildings , state news agency ANGOP , accessed on April 29, 2014
- ↑ Município de Viana celebra 53 anos de existência com reabertura de ruas angop.ao , December 12, 2018, accessed on September 21, 2019
- ↑ Desalojados no Zango esperam há 10 anos por casas condignas dw.com , January 15, 2019, accessed on September 21, 2019
- ↑ Centralidade do Zango 8000 recebe primeiros moradores angop.ao , October 4, 2018, accessed on September 21, 2019
- ↑ Urbanização Vida Pacífica-Luanda imogestin.co.ao , accessed on September 21, 2019
- ↑ Urbanização Vida Pacífica é privada jornaldeangola.sapo.ao , March 17, 2019, accessed on September 21, 2019
- ^ Angola: Administrative Division citypopulation.de , accessed on May 18, 2019.
- ↑ Censo 2014 censo.ine.gov.ao , accessed on May 15, 2019.
- ↑ Pólo Industrial de Viana cria novo modelo de gestão angop.ao , November 13, 2017, accessed on September 10, 2019
- ↑ Ministra da Indústria de Angola visita Pólo Industrial de Viana verangola.net , August 12, 2016, accessed on September 11, 2019
- ↑ Indústria lidera investimentos em Viana jornaldeangola.sapo.ao , January 2, 2017, accessed on September 10, 2019
- ↑ Mercado do 30 em Viana retira crianças da actividade comercial angop.ao , December 5, 2018, accessed on September 10, 2019
- ↑ Hourly connection with the CFL (English)
- ^ Universidade Jean Piaget, Angola, accessed September 11, 2019
- ^ Instituto Superior Técnico de Angola, accessed on September 11, 2019
- ↑ Polícia Nacional de Angola cgpn.gov.ao , accessed September 12, 2019
- ↑ The Estádio dos Santos stadium on the Liga Girabola website , accessed on April 29, 2014
- ↑ Final table Girabola 2013 on the website of the Liga Girabola, accessed on April 29, 2014