The Bengo (or Zenza) is a river in northern Angola with a source in the Crystal Mountains. Its mouth is at the Atlantic Ocean 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Luanda in Bengo Province. The river is 300 kilometres (190 mi) long with a drainage area of 7,370 square kilometres (2,850 sq mi). There is a large reservoir called Kiminha on the Bengo.[1] There are several small lakes on the lower 90 kilometres (56 mi) of the river floodplain including Lakes Panguila, Quilunda and Lalama. The Bengo River floodplain is the main source of the agricultural produce for Luanda.[2] Drinking water from the Bengo River was transported to Luanda in barrels by boat before an aqueduct was built in 1889.[3] Trucks deliver much of the city's modern water supply, loaded by pumps in the river.[4]
Mangroves grow in the estuary, near their southern limit.[5] Crocodiles, manatees, ducks and fish were among the wildlife in the river. The only aquaculture industry in Angola is a tilapia farm on the Bengo River at Kifangondo in Luanda Province.[6]
The river has been the site of several battles. In 1641 the Portuguese retreated there when the Dutch captured Luanda. In 1873 the Dembos living between the Bengo and Dande rivers led an uprising against the Portuguese.[7] The Battle of Quifangondo in 1975 was an important point in the Angolan War of Independence.
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^Angola and the River Congo, Volume 2, Joachim John Monteiro, Macmillan and Company, 1875, p. 15-19
^In Oil-Rich Angola, Cholera Preys Upon Poorest, SHARON LaFRANIERE, New York Times, June 16, 2006
^World Atlas of Mangroves, Mark Spalding, Mami Kainuma and Lorna Collins, Earthscan, 2010, p 241.
^Fishery Country Data: Angola Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
^The Creole Elite and the Rise of Angolan Protonationalism: 1870-1920, Jacopo Corrado, Cambria Press, 2008, p. 35.
The Bengo (or Zenza) is a river in northern Angola with a source in the Crystal Mountains. Its mouth is at the Atlantic Ocean 20 kilometres (12 mi) north...
waterworks at Quifangondo and an adjoining bridge which spanned the BengoRiver. Air cover for the ELNA offensive was provided by a squadron of South...
cross the BengoRiver and ran out of supplies, Dias de Novais managed to hold on to Luanda and the small fort of Nzele on the Kwanza River. From 1575...
sugar-producing region. A Dutch-Kongo force attacked Portuguese bases on the BengoRiver in 1643 in retaliation for Portuguese harassment. The Dutch captured...
forces assisted in driving the Portuguese from their positions on the BengoRiver. However, the Dutch again refused to press home the attack, allowing...
pieces, marched in a single line along the BengoRiver to face an 800-strong Cuban force across the river. Thus the Battle of Quifangondo began. The Cubans...
Dande RiverBengoRiver (Zenza River) Cuanza River Lucala River Luando River Cutato River Cunhinga River Longa River Cuvo River Quicombo River Catumbela...
cross the BengoRiver and ran out of supplies, Dias de Novais managed to hold on to Luanda and the small fort of Nzele on the Kwanza River. From 1575...
failed attempts to remove th ManiKasanje from his fortification on the BengoRiver, another Portuguese assault was launched under the command of Correia...
Dande is a river in northern Angola with a source in the Crystal Mountains. Its mouth is at the Atlantic Ocean at Barra do Dande in Bengo Province. It...
Angola. "Angola Statistics: Bengo". GeoHive. Archived from the original on 15 October 2009. Retrieved 28 Feb 2010. "Bengo: Municípios" (in Portuguese)...
Dembos is a municipality in the Bengo Province of Angola. The municipal seat is the city of Quibaxe. In 2014, it had a population of 28,202. It is bordered...
Catete may refer to: Catete, Ícolo e Bengo, a small town and commune in the municipality of Icolo e Bengo, Luanda Province, Angola Catete, Rio de Janeiro...
incidents on the suburban stretch between the Luanda, Viana and Icolo e Bengo municipalities, most of them in cases where drivers or pedestrians tried...
divisions of his heavy infantry and the archers on the flanks. The Duke of Bengo commanded the reserve. In the initial stages of the battle, the Kongolese...
Mitémélé, Gabon, Ogooué, Lovanzi, Kouilou, Congo, Dande, Bengo, and Cuanza. Manatees move up these rivers until they are unable to proceed because of shallow...
large collection of fishes made by Dr. W. J. Ansorge in the Quanza and BengoRivers, Angola". Journal of Natural History. Series 8. 6 (36): 537–561. doi:10...
addition of two additional municipalities transferred from Bengo Province, namely Icolo e Bengo, and Quiçama. Excluding these additions, the five municipalities...
Province, and on the south by the Bengo Province. The Kongo people (or Bakongo) occupied the valley of the Congo (or Zaire) River in the mid-thirteenth century...
(Mbini), Chiloango, Kouilou, Loeme and Ogooué rivers of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea and the Bengo and Congo River basins of Angola and Democratic Republic...
Angola's capital city of Luanda (see map). They are predominant in the Bengo and Malanje provinces and in neighbouring parts of the Cuanza Norte and...
(11): 1801–1819. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.07.002. Ramírez, María C.; Bengo, Irene; Mereu, Riccardo; Bejarano R., Astrid X.; Silva, Juan C. (2011)....
fish occupies rocky habitat in flowing river waters. It is recorded from the Bengo, Cuanza, and Cunene Rivers. Little is known about the biology or population...
name) Zala (surname) Zala, Angola, a town and commune in the province of Bengo Zala (woreda), a woreda (district) in the Gamo Gofa Zone of the Southern...
hydroelectric power plant across the Kwanza River at the border between Cuanza Norte Province and Bengo Province in Angola. Following rehabilitation...
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