Caluquembe
Municipality and town in Huíla, Angola
13°47′S 14°41′E / 13.783°S 14.683°E / -13.783; 14.683![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_Angola.svg/23px-Flag_of_Angola.svg.png)
(2014 Census)[1]
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Caluquembe (Kalukembe) is a town and municipality, with a population of 179,931 (2014 census), in the province of Huíla, Angola.[1]
It is also the site of two missionary efforts; one, Roman Catholic and the other, Evangelical Protestant. At the Protestant mission there were for the majority of the past century a Bible school and a hospital run by the Swiss Alliance Missionaire Evangelique.
Climate
Caluquembe has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen: Cwb).
Climate data for Caluquembe | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 18.4 (65.1) | 18.4 (65.1) | 18.8 (65.8) | 18.7 (65.7) | 16.6 (61.9) | 14.7 (58.5) | 14.7 (58.5) | 16.7 (62.1) | 18.9 (66.0) | 19.8 (67.6) | 19.3 (66.7) | 18.6 (65.5) | 17.8 (64.0) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 159 (6.3) | 156 (6.1) | 283 (11.1) | 130 (5.1) | 7 (0.3) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.0) | 8 (0.3) | 106 (4.2) | 164 (6.5) | 182 (7.2) | 1,196 (47.1) |
Source: Climate-Data.org[3] |
References
- ^ a b "Resultados Definitivos Recenseamento Geral da População e Habitação – 2014 Província da Huíla" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estatística, República de Angola. Retrieved 3 May 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Citypopulation.de Population of cities & urban localities in Angola
- ^ "Climate: Caluquembe". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
Didier Péclard, "Ethos missionnaire et esprit du capitalisme. La Mission Philafricaine en Angola, 1897-1907", _ Le Fait Missionnaire _ (Lausanne), no.1, Mai 1995, 97p.
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