Cabinda (city)

Cabinda

Chioua

Municipality and city

The Chapel of Rainha do Mundo in the City of Cabinda

The Chapel of Rainha do Mundo in the City of Cabinda

Seal

Cabinda

Location in Angola

Coordinates: Coordinates: 5°33′36″S 12°11′24″E﻿ / ﻿5.56°S 12.19°E﻿ / -5.56; 12.19
Country|  Angola
Admin. division| Cabinda province
Founded| 1883
City Status| 1956
Area

• Total| 2,273 km2 (878 sq mi)
Elevation

| 24 m (79 ft)
Population

(mid 2020)[1]

• Total| 739,182
• Density| 330/km2 (840/sq mi)
Climate| Aw

Cabinda, also known as Chioua,[2] is a city and a municipality located in the Cabinda Province, an exclave of Angola. Angolan sovereignty over Cabinda is disputed by the secessionist Republic of Cabinda. The city of Cabinda had a population of 550,000[3] and the municipality a population of 624,646, at the 2014 Census. The residents of the city are known as Cabindas or Fiotes. Cabinda, due to its proximity to rich oil reserves, serves as one of Angola's main oil ports.[4][5]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Geography
* 3 Districts
* 4 Education and science
* 5 Culture
* 6 Language
* 7 Transport
* 8 See also
* 9 References
* 10 Bibliography
* 11 External links

## History

The city was founded by the Portuguese in 1883 after the signing of the Treaty of Simulambuco, in the same period as the Berlin Conference. Cabinda was an embarkation point for slaves to Brazil.

There are considerable offshore oil reserves nearby.

## Geography

Cabinda is located on the Atlantic Ocean coast in the south of Cabinda Province, and sits on the right bank of the Bele River.[4] It is 56 kilometres (35 mi) north of Moanda (DR Congo), 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of Congo River estuary and 137 kilometres (85 mi) south of Pointe-Noire (Rep. Congo).[6]

## Districts

The city of Cabinda is divided into three districts, or comuna:

* Cabinda, the city seat, with 88.6% of the population the city
* Malembo, with 3.1%
* Tando-Zinze, with 8.3%[7]

## Education and science

Cabinda is home to two public higher education institutions, namely the 11 de Novembro University and the Higher Institute of Education Sciences of Cabinda. In addition, it has campuses of the Lusíada University and the Private University of Angola.

## Culture

The city's population has a distinctive culture from its way of dressing and eating to traditional rituals, especially Chicumbe and celebrated ceremonies of Bakamas do Tchizo,[8] a traditional ritual that enables the interaction between the living and the occult spirits of the gods and the ancestors, thus ensuring the reconciliation between the dead and the living.[9]

## Language

Ibinda, a Bantu language, is the primary language of both the city and province of Cabinda.[5] Portuguese, the official language of Angola, is also spoken, though mostly as an administrative role. Since Cabinda was colonized relatively later (late nineteenth century) by Portugal compared to most of Angola, Portuguese is not as widely spoken, though language speakers are rapidly growing in number.

## Transport

In 2012, a proposed railway connection to the main Angolan system has to cross territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[10]

## See also

* Togolese national football team bus attack

## References

1. ↑ "Angola: Administrative Division (Provinces and Municipalities) - Population Statistics, Charts and Map". https://www.citypopulation.de/en/angola/admin/. Population of provinces and municipalities in Angola
2. ↑ LaGamma, Alisa (2015). Kongo – Power and Majesty. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
3. ↑ Citypopulation.de Population of the major cities in Angola
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Cabinda". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.. 2014. http://www.brittanica.com/. Retrieved 2014-06-21.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Cabinda" (in pt). Luanda, Angola: Info-Angola. 2014. http://info-angola.ao/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=11&Itemid=1231.
6. ↑ Google. "Cabinda (city)" (Map). Google. Missing or empty `|title=` (help)
7. ↑ "Region 1: Cabinda". Postcode Query. 2014. http://ago.postcodequery.com/list/4.
8. ↑ "Cidade de Cabinda comemora 52 anos" (in pt). Governo da Província de Cabinda. http://www.gpcabinda.com/noticiasnsimbote.cfm?id=23.
9. ↑ "Uma excursão virtual a Cabinda" (in pt). Teia Portuguesa. http://www.teiaportuguesa.com/cabinda/cabinda.htm.
10. ↑ "Cabinda", Portugal: Diccionario Historico.... (Lisbon: Joao Romano Torres), 1906, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t6m081q3b?urlappend=;seq=562, retrieved 2022-05-01

## Bibliography

* "Cabinda" (in pt). Portugal: Diccionario Historico..... 2. Lisbon: Joao Romano Torres. 1906. OCLC 865826167. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t6m081q3b?urlappend=;seq=562.

## External links

| Wikisource has the text of the 1905 New International Encyclopedia article Cabinda.

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* Profile of Cabinda Municipality (in Portuguese)

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