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Quiçama
Municipality
Quiçama (red) in Bengo province (yellow)
QuiçamaLocation in Angola
Coordinates: 09°31′S 013°58′E / 9.517°S 13.967°E / -9.517; 13.967
Country	Angola
Province	Luanda Province
Area
• Total	13,900 km (5,400 sq mi)
Population
• Total	26,546
• Density	3.37/km (8.7/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (WAT)

Quiçama (Portuguese spelling), Quissama or Kisama (Bantu spelling) is one of the nine municípios (city council or municipality) that make up the province of Luanda, as per the new administrative division of the province (the others being, Luanda, Belas, Cazenga, Cacuaco, Viana and Icolo e Bengo). It covers an area of 13,900 square kilometres (5,400 sq mi) and its population as of 2014 is 26,546. The municipal seat is the village of Muxima.

Quiçama is bordered to the north by the municipalities of Viana and Icolo e Bengo, to the east by the municipalities of Cambambe, Libolo and Quibala, to the south by the municipalities of Quilenda and Porto Amboim, and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean.

Part of the municipality is occupied by the Quiçama National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional da Quiçama).

History

In the 1580s Kafuxi ka Mbari was the recognized defender of this area. In the 1580s he and the Portuguese based out of Luanda asserted his authority here. In 1594 Francisco de Almeida with the support of Pedro Alvares Rebello waged warfare to remove Kafuxi ka Mbari from power. Kafuxi ka Mbari defeated the forces under Almeida.

Administrative division

The municipality of Quiçama is made up of five comunas (communes), as follows:

• Cabo Ledo
• Demba Chio
• Mumbondo
• Muxima
• Quixinge

References

1. ^ "Resultados Definitivos Recenseamento Geral da População e da Habitação – 2014 Província de Luanda" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estatística, República de Angola. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
2. ^ "Reference Center: Provinces". Angolan Embassy in the United States. Archived from the original on 11 February 2006.
3. "City councils of Angola". Statoids. Retrieved 6 Apr 2009.
4. John K. Thornton. History of West Central Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020) p. 101

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