Waku kungo
| Waku kungo | |||
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| Coordinates | 11 ° 21 ′ S , 15 ° 7 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Angola | ||
| Cuanza Sul | |||
| Município | Cela | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | AO-CUS | ||
| Comuna | Waku kungo | ||
| Residents | 11,000 (2006) | ||
Waku-Kungo (also Wacu Cungo and similar spellings, until 1975 Santa Comba) is a city in the central highlands of Angola about 400 kilometers southeast of Luanda. It is the capital of the district of Cela in the province of Cuanza Sul and has about 11,000 inhabitants (2006). Occasionally the city is named after the district of Cela .
The city is on the main road from Luanda to Huambo .
history
Since the 16th century, ever larger parts of Angola came under the control of the Portuguese Empire . In the course of his administrative reforms in 1769, the Portuguese governor of Angola, Francisco Inocêncio de Sousa Coutinho, founded the province of Cuanza Sul. Cela became a county in it, and Waku-Kungo the county capital.
The Portuguese called the place Santa Comba, based on the Portuguese town of Santa Comba Dão . On July 6, 1970, he was raised to the city ( Cidade ). After Angola's independence in 1975, the place was given its current name.
During the Angolan civil war (1975-2002) the region was fiercely contested and was repeatedly taken alternately by the civil war parties ( MPLA with the help of Cuban troops, UNITA with the help of South African troops). The strategically important bridge on the main road to Huambo over the River Queve , about 25 kilometers south of the city, was held for a long time by Cuban troops. There are still a lot of landmines in the region there , in addition to Angolan aid organizations and commercial companies, the German mine clearance organization Stiftung Sankt Barbara Deutschland was busy clearing the legacies of the civil war in the region from 2006 to 2009 .
administration
Waku-Kungo is the seat of a municipality of the same name (Comuna) in the district ( Município ) of Cela , in the province of Cuanza Sul . The community has about 11,000 inhabitants (2006 estimate). From now on, the 2014 census should provide reliable population data.
Economy and Infrastructure
The area around Waku-Kungo is very suitable for agriculture due to the soils and abundant rainfall as well as large areas of the central highlands. After the civil war, the major agricultural project "Aldeia Nova" was launched there, which is supposed to give the people who fled during the war and are now returning a future perspective.
For the year 2014, a 448 million Kwanzas (approx. 3.3 million euros ) expensive program of the district administration to fight hunger and poverty was launched. It includes measures such as school meals, renewed and expanded basic health care facilities, microloans, and a number of other measures to strengthen society and infrastructure in the district.
In addition, tourism in Waku-Kungo has been the target of special funding by the provincial government since 2011.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.info-angola.ao ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2012 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 January 16, 2014
- ↑ Article on the 41st anniversary of the city survey on the official website www.cidadao.gov.ao, accessed on January 16, 2014
- ↑ Article of December 27, 2013 by the state news agency ANGOP , accessed on January 16, 2016
- ↑ Article from November 3, 2011 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from the provincial government website, accessed January 16, 2014
