Cacongo (municipality)

Lighthouse

5°14′30″S 12°08′00″E / 5.241667°S 12.133472°E / -5.241667; 12.133472TowerConstructed1950s

Constructionmasonry towerHeight8 m (26 ft)

Shapequadrangular tower^[1]^[2]Markingswhite towerOperatorInstituto Marítimo e Portuário de AngolaLightFocal height60 m (200 ft)

Range9 nmi (17 km; 10 mi)

CharacteristicOc W 5s

Cacongo^[3] (ex-Lândana,^[4] Concelho de Cacongo,^[5] Malemba,^[6] or Molembo^[7]) 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 1,679 square kilometres (648 sq mi) and had a population of 39,076 at the 2014 Census; the latest official estimate (as at mid 2019) is 44,974.^[8]

History

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.^[9]

Geology

The coast of Lândana is known by the Paleocene fossils, including Cabindachelys landanensis, Congosaurus, and Cimomia landanensis.^[10]

References

^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Angola". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
^ List of Lights, Pub. 113: The West Coasts of Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and Azovskoye More (Sea of Azov) (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2016.
^ "Instituto Nacional de Estatística". Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
^ Lândana, Município (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
^ Cacongo, Concelho de (Variant) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
^ Malemba (Variant) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
^ "Map of the territories of Cabinda, Molembo and Massabi" edited by A. A. d’Oliveira. – Scale 1:750,000. – Lisbon: Commissão de Cartographia, 1886, engraved and printed in Paris, by Erhard Fres.
^ Instituto Nacional de Estatistica, 2019.
^ "Maps Cabinda, Ngoyo, Kakongo, Loango". cabinda.net. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
^ Myers, Timothy S.; Polcyn, Michael J.; Mateus, Octávio; Vineyard, Diana P.; Gonçalves, António Olímpio; Jacobs, Louis L. (2018). "A new durophagous stem cheloniid turtle from the lower Paleocene of Cabinda, Angola". Papers in Palaeontology. 4 (2): 161–176. doi:10.1002/spp2.1100. S2CID 56232697.