• Vice-Governor for the Political, Economic and Social Sector
Albertina Teresa José
• Vice-Governor for Technical Services and Infrastructures
Feliciano Salomão Himulova
Area
• Total
87,342 km2 (33,723 sq mi)
Population
(2014 census)[1]
• Total
990,087
Time zone
UTC+1 (WAT)
Area code
035
ISO 3166 code
AO-CNN
HDI (2018)
0.509[2] low · 14th
Website
www.cunene.gov.ao
Cunene is a province of Angola. It has an area of 87,342 km2 and a population of 990,087 in 2014.[1]
Catching catfish in Cunene Province.
Ondjiva is the capital of the province; it was previously known as Vila Pereira d’Eça. Ondjiva is the only city in this province with the distance from Ondjiva to Luanda is 1424 km and to Lubango is 415 km. The Cunene River gave its name to the province.
Ruacana Falls
Cunene lies north of the Cunene River, which forms the border between Angola and Namibia. Cunene is traversed by the northwesterly line of equal latitude and longitude.
During World War I the region was the scene of fighting in 1914–15. The German campaign in Angola resulted in Germany's temporary occupation of the area.
The inhabitants of the Province are overwhelmingly Ovambo pastoralists. Since the 1960s, they have been under pressure first from white settlers, and after independence from high-ranking military officers and politicians, who acquired large extensions of land which the Ovambo need for the transhumance of their cattle. The ecological, economic and social advantage of pastoralism over ranching has been known since the 1970s, but has not been sufficiently taken into account in policy making.[3]
^ ab"Resultados Definitivos Recenseamento Geral da População e Habitação - 2014" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estatística, República de Angola. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^"Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Archived from the original on 2018-09-23. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
^Cruz de Carvalho, Eduardo (1974). ""Traditional" and "Modern" Patterns of Cattle Raising in Southwestern Angola: A critical evaluation of change from Pastoralism to Ranching" (PDF). The Journal of Developing Areas (8): 199–226. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-09-06 – via Environmental Information Service.
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