Cacongo, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Guilherme Capelo, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency or Lândana, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) is a town, with a population of 15,000 (2014),Citypopulation.de Population of cities & urban localities in Angola in Cacongo municipality, Cabinda Province, in Angola. The former Lândana municipality is now known as Cacongo, and the town is sometimes still known as Lândana.GeoNames Search : "Angola: Cabinda: Cacongo", United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency It is located on Lândana Bay about a kilometer south of the mouth of the Chiloango River.United States. Hydrographic Office (1916) Africa Pilot: The southwest coast of Africa from Cape Palmas to the Cape of Good Hope, including the islands of St. Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, and neighboring islands Hydrographic Office, Washington, D.C., volume 1, page 346
History
At the time of the arrival of the Portuguese in the 15th century the village was populated by the Kongo people, and was part of the Kakongo Kingdom. The Portuguese, Dutch, British and French traded along the coast in the 18th and 19th centuries, but the Portuguese formally occupied the town in 1883 following a treaty with the local king,Rawson, Rawson W. (November 1884) "The Territorial Partition of the Coast of Africa" Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography, Volume 6, No. XI, pages 615–631, page 623 prior to the Treaty of Simulambuco.
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