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Southern Africa, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Namibia and Democratic Republic of the Congo .
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| Land Boudaries Border Country :
| Democratic Republic of the Congo 2,511 km (of which 225 km is the boundary of discontiguous Cabinda Province), Republic of the Congo 201 km, Namibia 1,376 km, Zambia 1,110 km .
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| Land Boudaries Total :
| 5,198 km .
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| Geographic Coordinates :
| semiarid in south and along coast to Luanda; north has cool, dry season (May to October) and hot, rainy season (November to April) .
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| Area Total :
| 1,246,700 sq km .
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| Area Land :
| 1,246,700 sq km .
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| Area Water :
| 0 sq km .
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| Area Comparative :
| slightly less than twice the size of Texas .
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| Coast Line :
| 1,600 km .
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| Railways Total :
| 2,761 km .
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| Highways Total :
| 51,429 km .
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| Waterways :
| 1,300 km (2004) .
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| Ports and Harbors :
| Ambriz, Cabinda, Lobito, Luanda, Malongo, Namibe (Mocamedes), Porto Amboim, Soyo .
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Caconda is a municipality and city situated in the North of the province of Huila, Angola, Africa, in the Plano Alto region, approximately 280 km North of Lubango, the provincial capital city, and approximately 700 km South from Luanda, the country's capital city. The Concelho (municipality) was officially founded on 1857. It has approximately 160,000 inhabitants (statistics of 1983). In the 19th century, Caconda was the most advanced point in the colonial territory of Portugal in Africa.
Coordinates: 13° 46? 0? S, 15° 4? 60? E
There is also another populated place in Angola called Caconda, in the province of Huambo, and a river, in the province of Uige.
Caconda has a place in the history of Zoology, because it was in this region that the great Portuguese naturalist and explorer José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta (1833-1897) carried out the greater part of his works. He died in 1897 in Caconda, while returning from an expedition.
The Caconda region was severely affected by the Angolan Civil War. It is an extremely poor area, with a more than 20% malnutrition rate, with many families living on subsistence farming, which, when it fails, aggravates the situation, causing many deaths by hunger. A large number of people was displaced during the civil war. The United Nations relief program and the World Food Program have been essential in addressing the humanitarian catastrophe.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
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