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Caconda in Angola ANGOLA angola. caconda Informations and links Caconda Map Caconda Photos Caconda ------------------------------- 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.) Civil war has been the norm in Angola since independence from Portugal in 1975. A 1994 peace accord between the government and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) provided for the integration of former UNITA insurgents into the government and armed forces. A national unity government was installed in April of 1997, but serious fighting resumed in late 1998, rendering hundreds of thousands of people homeless. Up to 1.5 million lives may have been lost in fighting over the past quarter century. The death of insurgent leader Jonas SAVIMBI in 2002 and a subsequent cease-fire with UNITA may bode well for the country..
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