Cacongo (municipality) explained
| Qid: | Q106191900 |
Ponta de Lândana Lighthouse
Kakongo |
| Location: | Ponta de Lândana
Lândana
Angola |
| Construction: | masonry tower |
| Shape: | quadrangular tower[1] |
| Marking: | white tower |
| Managingagent: | Instituto Marítimo e Portuário de Angola |
Cacongo[2] (ex-Lândana,[3] Concelho de Cacongo,[4] Malemba,[5] or Molembo[6]) is a municipality in Cabinda Province, an exclave of Angola. Its principal town is Cacongo. Landana lies on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, adjacent to Landana Bay. The municipality covers and had a population of 39,076 at the 2014 Census; the latest official estimate (as at mid 2019) is 44,974.[7]
History
See main article: Kakongo. At the time of the arrival of the Portuguese in the 15th Century it was populated by the Kongo people and was the major portion of the Kingdom of Kakongo.[8]
Geology
The coast of Lândana is known by the Paleocene fossils, including Cabindachelys landanensis, Congosaurus, and Cimomia landanensis.[9]
See also
Notes and References
- 13 May 2017.
- Web site: Instituto Nacional de Estatística . 15 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161011131844/http://www.ine.gov.ao/xportal/xmain?xpid=ine&xpgid=classification_detail&classification_detail_qry=BOUI=6716320&actualmenu=767441 . 11 October 2016 . dead .
- , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- http://www.cabinda.net/Maps.html "Map of the territories of Cabinda, Molembo and Massabi"
- Instituto Nacional de Estatistica, 2019.
- Web site: Maps Cabinda, Ngoyo, Kakongo, Loango. cabinda.net. 5 July 2017.
- Myers . Timothy S. . Polcyn . Michael J. . Mateus . Octávio . Vineyard . Diana P. . Gonçalves . António Olímpio . Jacobs . Louis L. . A new durophagous stem cheloniid turtle from the lower Paleocene of Cabinda, Angola . Papers in Palaeontology . 2018 . 4 . 2 . 161–176 . 10.1002/spp2.1100 . 56232697 .
