Cazenga is a city and the most densely populated of the nine municipalities that make up the Luanda Province, Angola. It has a population of 892,401 (2014 census), with an estimated 1,045,722 in 2019,[ Citypopulation.de Population of provinces and municipalities in Angola] covering an area of 37 km2.
Administrative divisions
The municipality of Cazenga is made up of three communes:
Transportation
Cazenga is the site of the workshops for the
Luanda Railway.
Utilities
In a 1974 article
[ Whites in Angola on the Eve of Independence: The Politics of Numbers Africa Today, vol. 21, no. 4 (Autumn, 1974), pp. 23-37.] American political scientist Gerald J. Bender wrote: "Another account of the sale of water to Africans can be found in the Luandan newspaper,
Província de Angola. The article reported that water is sold in the slum of Cazenga at an average price of 2.5
(about ten American cents) for five gallons. (The legal minimum daily wage for the district of Luanda in July 1974 was 25 escudos - about one American dollar-per day.)
[ A Província de Angola]
See also
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Railway stations in Angola
