Benguela (Portuguese pronunciation: [bẽˈɡɛlɐ]; Umbundu: Luombaka) is a city in western Angola, capital of Benguela Province. Benguela is one of Angola's...
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The Benguela Current /bɛŋˈɡɛlə/ is the broad, northward flowing ocean current that forms the eastern portion of the South Atlantic Ocean gyre. The current...
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The Benguela Railway (Portuguese: Caminho de Ferro de Benguela (CFB)) is a Cape gauge railway line that runs through Angola from west to east, being the...
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Sporting Clube de Benguela or simply Sporting de Benguela, is an Angolan sports club from the city of Benguela. The club was founded on 16 November 1915...
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Benguela may refer to: Benguela, a city (the namesake capital of Benguela Province) Benguela (province) Benguela railway Benguela Current Benguela, a Capoeira...
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Benguela (Umbundu: Luombaka Volupale) is a province of Angola, situated in the west of the country. It lies on the Atlantic Ocean, and borders the provinces...
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Benguela Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto de Benguela - 17 de Setembro) (IATA: BUG, ICAO: FNBG) is an airport serving Benguela, the capital city of Benguela...
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Autódromo de Benguela was a race track located in Benguela, Angola. Autódromo de Benguela was located west of the Benguela airport, about 800 m (2,600 ft)...
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Tereza de Benguela (Benguela, c. 1700 - Captaincy of Mato Grosso, 1770) was a quilombola leader who lived in the state of Mato Grosso, in Brazil, during...
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seamounts: 59 Southern Benguela canyon: 59 Southern Benguela carbonate mound: 59 Southern Benguela dissipative sandy coast: 59 Southern Benguela dissipative-intermediate...
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Filipe de Benguela (Fortaleza de São Filipe de Benguela in Portuguese) was located by the Baía das Vacas, in the city and municipality of Benguela, capital...
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The Benguela Current Commission, or BCC, is a multi-sectoral inter-governmental, initiative of Angola, Namibia and South Africa. It promotes the sustainable...
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The Angola - Benguela front (ABF) is a permanent frontal feature situated between 15° and 17°S off the coast of Angola and Namibia, west Africa. It separates...
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in 1575 with a hundred families of settlers and four hundred soldiers. Benguela was fortified in 1587 and became a township in 1617. An authoritarian state...
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Nacional de Benguela, founded on June 24, 1920, as Sports Clube Portugal de Benguela or simply Portugal de Benguela, is a sports club from Benguela, Angola...
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in southern parts of Angola, with Germans concentrated in Moçamedes and Benguela and Afrikaners concentrated in Huíla Province. Most Afrikaners and Germans...
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Senhora de Fátima) or simply Cathedral of Benguela is a religious building of the Catholic Church which is in Benguela, in the African country of Angola and...
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Wiliete Sport Clube is an Angolan sports club from the city of Benguela, in the namesake province. In 2019, the team qualified to the Gira Angola, the...
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Heaviside's dolphin (redirect from Benguela Dolphin)
dolphins in the genus Cephalorhynchus. The small cetacean is endemic to the Benguela ecosystem along the southwest coast of Africa. Early in the 19th century...
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installation of Exxon's Lena oil platform. On April 15, 2005 the Base Tower of Benguela Belize was launched from the barge H-851. The Base Tower makes up the first...
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Umbundu (redirect from Mbundu language (Benguela))
and the coastal region west of these highlands, including the cities of Benguela and Lobito. Because of recent internal migration, there are now also large...
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Benguela-Belize Lobito-Tomboco is a 512 m (1,680 ft) offshore compliant tower oil platform off the coast of Angola, located in water 390 m (1,280 ft) deep...
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The Benguela long-billed lark (Certhilauda benguelensis), also known as the Benguela lark or Benguela longbill is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae...
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The Empresa do Caminho de Ferro de Benguela-E.P. (ECFB-EP; in English: Railway Company of Benguela) is an Angolan state-owned company responsible for...
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Cape to Cairo Railway (section Benguela-Katanga link)
there is an interconnection of the Cape-Cairo Railway with the Katanga-Benguela railway linking it to the port of Lobito in Angola, on the Atlantic coast...
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da Graça, Benguela Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Rajindraparsad Seechurn (Mauritius) 12 January 2010 19:30 Complexo da Sr. da Graça, Benguela Attendance:...
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bridgehead in Benguela, in the 16th century. Several of the small kingdoms saw their advantage in organising an intense caravan trade between Benguela and peoples...
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Hemidactylus benguellensis (redirect from Benguela house gecko)
The Benguela house gecko (Hemidactylus benguellensis) is a species of gecko. It is endemic to Angola and Namibia. Hemidactylus benguellensis at the Reptarium...
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Sporting Clube de Benguela, in short Sporting de Benguela, was a basketball club from Angola. The club, based in the city of Benguela, the capital of the...
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the Republic of Angola. Teixeira da Silva → Bailundo (1975) Benguella → Benguela (1975) Vila Robert Williams → Caála (1975) Concelho → Caconda (1975) Amboim...
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