Lucapa | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality and town |
Pushpin Map: | Angola |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Angola |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Angola |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Lunda Norte Province |
Area Total Km2: | 19300 |
Population As Of: | mid 2019 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 179020 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Coordinates: | -8.4228°N 20.7392°W |
Elevation M: | 880 |
Blank Name: | Climate |
Blank Info: | Aw |
Lucapa is a town, with a population of 110,000 (2014 census)[2] and a municipality with a population of 154,305 (2014 census), located in eastern Angola. Lucapa is the former capital of Lunda Norte Province.
Until the 2014 census its population was difficult to estimate as it has changed greatly over the last 15 years due to internal displacement caused by civil war and the subsequent resettlement.
The primary industry in the town is mining and several thousand residents are employed by the co-operative mining group formed by SML and ITM Mining.