1975, ISBN: 9781156807644

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Malanje, Cambundi-Catembo, Cunda-Dia-Baza, Cuaba Nzogo, Marimba, Angola, Caombo, Calandula, Luquembo, Mucari, Quela, Angola, Cacuzo, Cangandala, Quirima, Cangandala National Park, Kalandula Falls. Excerpt: Malanje - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Portuguese settlers founded Malanje in the 19th Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Malanje, Cambundi-Catembo, Cunda-Dia-Baza, Cuaba Nzogo, Marimba, Angola, Caombo, Calandula, Luquembo, Mucari, Quela, Angola, Cacuzo, Cangandala, Quirima, Cangandala National Park, Kalandula Falls. Excerpt: Malanje - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Portuguese settlers founded Malanje in the 19th century. The construction of the railway from Luanda to Malanje, in the fertile highlands, started in 1885. The environs of Malange included the principal cotton-producing area of Portuguese West Africa and drove its development since the beginning. The town developed in the mid-19th century as an important feira (open-air market) on Portuguese Angola's principal plateau, between Luanda the territory's capital and largest city, 250 miles (400 km) to the west and the Cuango valley, inhabited by Mbundu peoples, 125 miles (200 km) to the east. Situated at an elevation of 4,373 feet (1,333 metres), the town had a high-altitude tropical climate, ideal to several agricultural productions. The city developed as an important agricultural, manufacturing, trading and services centre. Its productions included cotton, textiles, coffee, fruit and corn, and among its facilities it had cinema, hospital, railway station and airport. The Cangandala National Park, was established by the Portuguese authorities on 25 June 1970, having previously been classified as an Integral Natural Reserve on 25 May 1963. The withdrawal of the Portuguese in conjunction with Angolas independence in 1975, and, later, the Angolan Civil War (19752002), severely hampered the production of cotton as well as that of coffee and corn (maize). Malanje was partially destroyed during the civil war, but reconstruction efforts in the years following the end of the conflict have rebuilt the city and. More: Books, , Malanje-Province~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<