Caála
| Caála | |||
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| Coordinates | 12 ° 51 ′ S , 15 ° 33 ′ E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Angola | ||
| Huambo | |||
| Município | Caála | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | AO-HUA | ||
| Comuna | Caála | ||
| surface | 3680 km² | ||
| Residents | 373,000 (2011) | ||
| density | 101.4 Ew. / km² | ||
Caála (until 1975 Vila Robert Williams ) is a district and a city in the Angolan province of Huambo with about 45,000 inhabitants, west of the provincial capital Huambo .
history
The place began its development with the arrival of the Benguela Railway in 1912. It belonged to the Huambo County until 1922, after which it came to the Lépi County , whose capital it became in 1934. In 1956 Caála became the seat of its own district and was henceforth called Vila Robert Williams, named after the engineer and explorer Sir Robert Williams .
The previous small town ( Vila ) was elevated to a town ( Cidade ) in 1970 .
After Angola's independence in 1975, the city dropped its Portuguese place name and got its current name back.
In 2002, after the end of the Angolan civil war and during the famine that followed, Caála was the location of a MSF nutrition center .
Sports
The football club Clube Recreativo da Caála (CR Caála) plays in the first Angolan league, the Girabola (as of the 2013/14 season). Since it was founded in 1944, the club has been at home in Estádio Mártires da Kanhara . The stadium was modernized , together with the other facilities of the club, in 2008 by the Brazilian company Odebrecht , and can accommodate 8,000 spectators.
administration
Caála is the seat of a district of the same name ( Município ) in the province of Huambo . The Caála district covers an area of 3680 km² and has about 373,000 inhabitants (2011 estimate). An estimated 45,230 people live in the city of Caála. From now on, the 2014 census should provide reliable population data.
Four municipalities (Comunas) make up the Caála district:
sons and daughters of the town
- José Fonseca e Costa (1933-2015), Portuguese director
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Brief portrait of the Caála district on www.guiaturismosdeangola.com, accessed on April 24, 2014
- ↑ www.portalangop.co.ao , accessed November 24, 2013
- ↑ ditto
- ↑ frendy.de