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The museum was established in 1938 as the Museu de Angola, [1] and was originally housed in the Fortress of São Miguel, initially with departments of Ethnography, History, Zoology, Botany, Geology, Economics and Art. A library and colonial history archive was added. In 1956, the museum collection moved to its current 3-story building in Ingombota.
The western Angola Endemic Bird Area has 14 range-restricted species. Little is known about the conservation status of the region's birds due to the Angolan Civil War from 1975 until 2002. The greatest diversity of restricted-range species is found in Cuanza Sul Province , and given the uncertainty about their current status, many of these ...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. [1] Angola accepted the convention on November 7, 1991, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the ...
The Dundo Museum (Portuguese: Museu do Dondo), officially the Dundo Regional Museum and formerly called the Dungo Ethnographic Museum, [1] is a national ethnographic and natural history museum in Dundo, Lunda Norte Province, Angola. It was founded in 1936 by the Diamang company, making it the country's first museum. It is considered one of the ...
According to the Angola Ministry of the Environment, there are three types of vegetation at Iona National Park: Sub-coastal steppes with woody and herbaceous components: This type of vegetation is a sub-coastal African steppe-like formation dominated by Acacia, Commiphora, Colophosphormum, Aristida, Schmidita, and Staria species.
Category: National parks of Angola. 20 languages. ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary ...
Museu Nacional de História Natural de Angola; Dundo Museum; Museu Central das Forças Armadas; Museu Nacional da Escravatura; See also. List of museums;
The park covers an area of 42,000 km². [1] It located in Cuando Province in the southeastern corner of Angola. The park is bounded on the west and southwest by the Kavango River, on the south by the border with Namibia, on the east by the Cuando River which forms the border with Zambia, and on the north by Longa-Mavinga National Park.