Caconda

Caconda

Angola
      town, west-central Angola. It is located 140 miles (225 km) inland from the Atlantic Ocean, on the Huíla Plateau (a high tableland sloping westward to the Atlantic coast in a series of descending escarpments), at an elevation of about 5,400 feet (1,650 metres).

      A Portuguese military post was established at Caconda sometime between 1682 and 1684 to tax and control the slave trade. A permanent presidio, which became the first European settlement in the highlands, was built there in 1764. Until the late 19th century Caconda remained an advanced frontier post for Portuguese colonial trade with the interior. In 1948 the first colonato (planned agricultural community) for black Africans in Angola was established near the town. Cattle were raised, and various crops (including corn [maize] and cotton) were grown with the assistance of agronomists. Pop. (latest est.) 11,021.

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