Massangano
Massangano is a town and commune of Angola, located in the province of Cuanza Norte. Its name is sometimes written Masango. It was esblished by the Portuguese in 1582 as Fort Nossa Senhora da Vitória to be their base of operations in the interior of modern Angola until the late 17th-century.Photo: Atospal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Massangano Fort.
Massangano Fort
Ruins
Photo: Atospal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Fort Nossa Senhora da Vitória de Massangano, popularly known as Fortress of Massangano is located in the village-commune of Massangano, in the municipality of Cambambe, in the province of Cuanza-Norte, in Angola.
Massangano
- Type: Village with 24,000 residents
- Description: commune in Cuanza Norte, Angola
- Categories: municipality of Angola and locality
- Location: Cuanza Norte Province, Angola, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-9.62694° or 9° 37′ 37″ southLongitude
14.2563° or 14° 15′ 23″ eastPopulation
24,000Open location code
6F2P97F4+6GOpenStreetMap ID
node 7138306372OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q10327178
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Swedish—“Massangano” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Massangano”
- Dutch: “Massangano”
- French: “Massangano”
- German: “Massangano”
- Italian: “Massangano”
- Malay: “Massangano”
- Polish: “Massangano”
- Portuguese: “Massangano do Cuanza”
- Portuguese: “Massangano”
- Portuguese: “Vila de Nossa Senhora da Vitória de Massangano”
- Russian: “Массангано”
- Spanish: “Massangano”
- Swedish: “Massangano”
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