{{Short description|Municipality in Cabinda Province, Angola}} {{About|the municipality|the genus|Dolichognatha}} {{EngvarB|date=March 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Cacongo | settlement_type = Municipality | image_map = Cacongo, Angola Map.jpeg | map_caption = {{legend|#BC2A3C|Cacongo}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|Angola}} | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Cabinda Province | established_title = | area_total_km2 = | population_total = | population_as_of = | population_density_km2 = | timezone = WAT | utc_offset = +1 }}
'''Cacongo'''<ref>{{cite web | title = Instituto Nacional de Estatística | url = http://www.ine.gov.ao/xportal/xmain?xpid=ine&xpgid=classification_detail&classification_detail_qry=BOUI=6716320&actualmenu=767441 | accessdate = 15 September 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161011131844/http://www.ine.gov.ao/xportal/xmain?xpid=ine&xpgid=classification_detail&classification_detail_qry=BOUI=6716320&actualmenu=767441 | archive-date = 11 October 2016 | url-status = dead }}</ref> (ex-'''Lândana''',<ref>{{GEOnet2|32FA88133C373774E0440003BA962ED3|Lândana, Município (Approved)}}, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency</ref> '''Concelho de Cacongo''',<ref>{{GEOnet2|32FA88133C393774E0440003BA962ED3|Cacongo, Concelho de (Variant)}}, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency</ref> '''Malemba''',<ref>{{GEOnet2|32FA88133C383774E0440003BA962ED3|Malemba (Variant)}}, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency</ref> or '''Molembo'''<ref>[http://www.cabinda.net/Maps.html "Map of the territories of Cabinda, Molembo and Massabi"] edited by A. A. d’Oliveira. – Scale 1:750,000. – Lisbon: Commissão de Cartographia, 1886, engraved and printed in Paris, by Erhard Fres.</ref>) is a municipality in Cabinda Province, an exclave of Angola. Its principal town is Cacongo. Landana lies on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, adjacent to Landana Bay. The municipality covers {{convert|1679|sqkm}} and had a population of 39,076 at the 2014 Census; the latest official estimate (as at mid 2019) is 44,974.<ref>Instituto Nacional de Estatistica, 2019.</ref>
==History== {{main|Kakongo}} At the time of the arrival of the Portuguese in the 15th Century it was populated by the Kongo people and was the major portion of the Kingdom of Kakongo.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cabinda.net/Maps.html|title=Maps Cabinda, Ngoyo, Kakongo, Loango|website=cabinda.net|access-date=5 July 2017}}</ref>
==Geology== The coast of Lândana is known by the Paleocene fossils, including ''Cabindachelys landanensis'', ''Congosaurus'', and ''Cimomia landanensis''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Myers |first1=Timothy S. |last2=Polcyn |first2=Michael J. |last3=Mateus |first3=Octávio |last4=Vineyard |first4=Diana P. |last5=Gonçalves |first5=António Olímpio |last6=Jacobs |first6=Louis L. |title=A new durophagous stem cheloniid turtle from the lower Paleocene of Cabinda, Angola |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |year=2018 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=161–176 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1100 |s2cid=56232697 }}</ref>
==See also== * List of lighthouses in Angola
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