Cacongo (municipality) explained

Cacongo^[1] (ex-Lândana,^[2] Concelho de Cacongo,^[3] Malemba,^[4] or Molembo^[5]) 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.^[6]

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.^[7]

Geology

The coast of Lândana is known by the Paleocene fossils, including Cabindachelys landanensis, Congosaurus, and Cimomia landanensis.^[8]

See also

• List of lighthouses in Angola

Notes and References

1. 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 .
2. , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
3. , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
4. , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
5. http://www.cabinda.net/Maps.html "Map of the territories of Cabinda, Molembo and Massabi"
6. Instituto Nacional de Estatistica, 2019.
7. Web site: Maps Cabinda, Ngoyo, Kakongo, Loango. cabinda.net. 5 July 2017.
8. 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 .