Cacongo Explained

Cacongo
Settlement Type:Town
Pushpin Map:Angola
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Mapsize:250
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Angola
Population Total:15000
Population As Of:Census 2014
Coordinates:-5.2333°N 20°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Angola
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Cabinda
Timezone:WAT
Utc Offset:+1
Blank Name:Climate
Blank Info:Aw

Cacongo[1] (Guilherme Capelo[2] or Lândana[3]) is a town, with a population of 15,000 (2014),[4] in Cacongo municipality, Cabinda Province, in Angola.[5] [6] The former Lândana municipality is now known as Cacongo, and the town is sometimes still known as Lândana.[7] It is located on Lândana Bay about a kilometer south of the mouth of the Chiloango River.[8]

History

See main article: Kakongo. At the time of the arrival of the Portuguese in the 15th century the village was populated by the Kongo people, and was part of the Kakongo Kingdom. The Portuguese, Dutch, British and French traded along the coast in the 18th and 19th centuries, but the Portuguese formally occupied the town in 1883 following a treaty with the local king,[9] prior to the Treaty of Simulambuco.

Notes and References

  1. , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  2. , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  3. , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  4. https://www.citypopulation.de/en/angola/cities/ Citypopulation.de
  5. Web site: City councils of Angola. Statoids. 7 April 2009. 29 September 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180929074103/http://www.statoids.com/yao.html. live.
  6. Web site: Reference Center: Provinces . Angolan Embassy in the United States . https://web.archive.org/web/20060211115650/http://www.angola.org/referenc/provinces.html . 11 February 2006.
  7. http://geonames.nga.mil/ggmagaz/ GeoNames Search
  8. United States. Hydrographic Office (1916) Africa Pilot: The southwest coast of Africa from Cape Palmas to the Cape of Good Hope, including the islands of St. Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, and neighboring islands Hydrographic Office, Washington, D.C., volume 1, page 346
  9. Rawson, Rawson W. (November 1884) "The Territorial Partition of the Coast of Africa" Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography, Volume 6, No. XI, pages 615 - 631, page 623