Cambambe
Cambambe is a municipality in Cuanza Norte Province in Angola. It is the site of a hydroelectric dam on the Cuanza River. Cambambe also contains ruins from the 17th-century Portuguese settlement of the area, including the Church of Nossa Senhora do Rosario and the Fortress of Kambambe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kambambe Fortress and Cambambe Hydroelectric Power Plant I.
Kambambe Fortress
Fort
The Fortress of Kambambe is a historic stronghold built by Portuguese colonialists on the east bank of the Cuanza River in Cambambe, Province of Cuanza Norte Province, Angola.
Cambambe Hydroelectric Power Plant I
Power station
The Cambambe Hydroelectric Power Station is a hydroelectric power plant across the Kwanza River at the border between Cuanza Norte Province and Bengo Province in Angola.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dondo.
Dondo
Town
Photo: L.Willms, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dondo is a town, with a population of 64,643, and a commune in the municipality of Cambambe, province of Cuanza Norte, Angola. Dondo is situated 10 km northwest of Cambambe.
Cambambe
- Type: Village with 90,800 residents
- Description: municipality of Angola
- Categories: municipality of Angola and locality
- Location: Cuanza Norte Province, Angola, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-9.74605° or 9° 44′ 46″ southLongitude
14.48667° or 14° 29′ 12″ eastPopulation
90,800Elevation
213 metres (699 feet)Open location code
6F2P7F3P+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 2341801626OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2242804Wikidata ID
Q1003771
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Zulu—“Cambambe” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Cambambe”
- Cebuano: “Município Cambambe”
- Chinese: “坎班貝”
- Dagbani: “Cambambe”
- Dutch: “Cambambe”
- French: “Cambambe”
- German: “Cambambe”
- Italian: “Cambambe”
- Japanese: “カンバベ”
- Japanese: “カンバンビ”
- Japanese: “カンバンベ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cambambe”
- Persian: “کمبمبه”
- Portuguese: “Cambambe”
- Portuguese: “Kambambe”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cambambe”
- South Azerbaijani: “کمبمبه، آنقولا”
- South Azerbaijani: “کمبمبه”
- Spanish: “Cambambe”
- Swahili: “Cambambe”
- Swedish: “Município Cambambe”
- Ukrainian: “Камбамбе”
- Uzbek: “Cambambe”
- Zulu: “Cambambe”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cambambe Hydroelectric Power Plant II and Igreja Nossa Senhora de Rosário.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cambambe”. Photo: Jjtkk, CC0.