Santa Cruz, Angola
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Santa Cruz (also called Milunga ) is a city and a county in Angola.{{Cite web|url=https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2123085174|title=Santa Cruz|website=OpenStreetMap|publisher=OpenStreetMap|accessdate=16 May 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.accuweather.com/en/ao/santa-cruz/6761/weather-forecast/6761|title=Weather forecast|website=AccuWeather|access-date=16 May 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://censo.ine.gov.ao/xportal/xmain?xpid=censo2014&xpgid=provincias&provincias-generic-detail_qry=BOUI=10504841&actualmenu=10504841&actualmenu=8377485|title=Angola|website=Censo 2014|access-date=12 June 2018}} The municipality had a population of 50,596 in 2014.{{cite web|url=https://www.ine.gov.ao/images/Censo_2014/Publicacao__Uige__14_11_2016.pdf |title=Resultados Definitivos Recenseamento Geral da População e Habitação – 2014 Província do Uíge |accessdate=3 May 2020 |website=Instituto Nacional de Estatística, República de Angola| df=dmy }}
History
Santa Cruz was one of the first objectives of the independence movement UPA (União das Populações do Norte de Angola, from 1962 FNLA), which began in March 1961, the Portuguese colonial war in Angola. The popular resistance of the local population, which consisted largely of Portuguese settlers, was propagated by Portuguese propaganda as a feat against terrorist attacks by insurgents who were sinking abroad.Carlos de Matos Gomes, Fernando Farinha: Guerra Colonial. Um repórter em Angola. 2.Auflage, Editorial Notícias, Lissabon 2001, S. 40ff, {{ISBN|972-46-1299-6}}
After Angola's independence in 1975, Santa Cruz, like many other places, abandoned its Portuguese place name and adopted the name of Milunga. Meanwhile, the city is usually called again Santa Cruz.
Administration
Santa Cruz is the seat of a district of the same name ( Município ) in the province of Uíge. The county has 77,779 inhabitants (projected estimate 2014). The 2014 census should now provide secured population data.
Four communities (Comunas) form the district of Santa Cruz:
External links
- [http://censo.ine.gov.ao/xportal/xmain?xpid=censo2014&xpgid=provincias&provincias-generic-detail_qry=BOUI=10505512&actualmenu=10505512 Profile of Santa Cruz County] on the official Census 2014 website