Cabinda (city)

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Cabinda Chioua
Municipality and city
The Chapel of Rainha do Mundo in the City of Cabinda
Seal
Cabinda Location in Angola
Coordinates: 5°33′36″S 12°11′24″E / 5.56000°S 12.19000°E / -5.56000; 12.19000Coordinates: 5°33′36″S 12°11′24″E / 5.56000°S 12.19000°E / -5.56000; 12.19000
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]

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.

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 .^[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[]

Universities:

•  [pt]
• Universidade Lusíada
• Private University of Angola

Culture[]

The city's population has a peculiar 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.^{[citation needed]}

See also[]

• Togolese national football team bus attack

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Esteves Pereira; Guilherme Rodrigues, eds. (1906). "Cabinda". Portugal: Diccionario Historico... (in Portuguese). 2. Lisbon: Joao Romano Torres. OCLC 865826167.

External links[]

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

• Profile of Cabinda Municipality (in Portuguese)
• Media related to Cabinda (city) at Wikimedia Commons