Matala
Matala is a town and a municipality in the province of Huíla, Angola. The municipality had a population of 262,763 in 2014. Matala is situated along the Kunene River at an elevation of approximately 1300 metres above sea level; the Matala Weir is positioned at this point along the river.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 335,000 residents
- Description: municipality of Angola
- Also known as: “Matala, Angola”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Matala Hydroelectric Power Station.
Matala Hydroelectric Power Station
Power station
The Matala Power Station is a hydroelectric power station across the Kunene River, in Angola, that has installed generation capacity of 40 MW. The power station came online in 1954.
Matala
- Categories: municipality of Angola and locality
- Location: Huíla Province, Angola, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-14.7384° or 14° 44′ 18″ southLongitude
15.0289° or 15° 1′ 44″ eastPopulation
335,000Elevation
1,238 metres (4,062 feet)United Nations Location Code
AO MTLOpen location code
5FQQ726H+MHOpenStreetMap ID
node 7212015471OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Zulu—“Matala” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Matala”
- Catalan: “Matala”
- Cebuano: “Município Matala”
- Chinese: “馬塔拉”
- Czech: “Matala”
- Dagbani: “Matala”
- Dutch: “Matala”
- Finnish: “Aldeia da Matala”
- Finnish: “Matala”
- French: “Matala”
- German: “Matala”
- Greek: “Ματάλα”
- Italian: “Matala”
- Malay: “Matala, Angola”
- Malay: “Matala”
- Persian: “متلا، آنگولا”
- Persian: “متلا”
- Polish: “Matala”
- Portuguese: “Matala”
- Russian: “Матала”
- Spanish: “Matala”
- Swahili: “Matala, Angola”
- Swahili: “Matala”
- Swedish: “Município Matala”
- Ukrainian: “Матала”
- Uzbek: “Matala”
- Zulu: “Matala, Angola”
- Zulu: “Matala”
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