Mavinga is a municipality in Angola that has served as the capital of Cuando Province since the creation of that province in 2024. The 2014 census recorded 27,196 residents across the municipality, with roughly 10,000 living in the urban area, and the Mbunda people make up the predominant population in one of only three Angolan municipalities where this is so. The town figures in Angolan Civil War history, referenced in a 1990 UNITA account of fighting between December 1989 and May 1990.
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Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Mavinga (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 24,757 (2024)
2. Open-Meteo: Open-Meteo Elevation API: elevation at Mavinga coordinates
Open-MeteoJSON elevationQuote, JSON elevation
"elevation": [ 1214.0 ]
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 -15.75, 20.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -15.75, 20.25
-15.75 20.25 BSh
4. GeoNames: Mavinga - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 876019, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 876019, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
-15.79347 20.36374 P PPLA AO CUB 10000 1160 Africa/Luanda
Mavinga (Wikipedia)
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Mavinga is a municipality in Angola, and the capital of Cuando Province since that province's creation in 2024.
- In Group: Cities of Middle Africa (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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