Benguela is a city on Angola's Atlantic coast and capital of Benguela Province, founded in 1617 as Sao Felipe de Benguela by Portuguese governor Manuel Cerveira Pereira. It grew into a major hub of the transatlantic slave trade to Brazil and Cuba, and its municipality had 561,775 residents at the 2014 census, estimated at 692,202 by 2022. Its economy today rests on coffee, corn, sisal and tobacco farming and fishing, and it is linked by the Benguela Railway to Angola's interior and onward to Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Benguela (Wikidata)
P571 (inception)
+1617-01-01T00:00:00Z
P1082 (population)
population 561,775 (2014)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude -12.55, longitude 13.416667
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 39 m
P2046 (area)
area 2100.0 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 561775 (2014)
View the Source2. GeoNames: Benguela - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3351663
-12.57674 13.40268 P PPLA AO 01 555124 30 Africa/Luanda
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 30 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -12.75, 13.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -12.75, 13.25
-12.75 13.25 BSh
Benguela (Wikipedia)
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