Catumbela
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Catumbela
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and city
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Catumbela station.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Catumbela railway station
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Angola
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 200
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Angola
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Benguela Province
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Filomena Pascoal
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 801
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2014 Census
- Settlement.population_total
- 175805
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Angola
- Official name
- Catumbela
- Country
- Angola
- Located in
- Benguela Province
- Population
- 175805
- Area
- 3285
- Elevation
- 6
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Image
- Catumbela station.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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Catumbela is a city and municipality of the Benguela province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 175,805 in 2014.
== History == In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Portuguese built Forte de São Pedro to establish themselves in Benguela. Today, the fort is in a dilapidated condition, but plans are being made to restore it and turn it into a museum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Catumbela” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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