Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising in central Angola and flowing about 805 km (500 mi) generally northwest to the Atlantic Ocean.
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There are now well informed thieves who have begun stealing these items each of which costs around 30 thousand Cuanza (approximately 385 USD at the date this piece was published).
Global Voices in English » Angola: New highway code in action 2009
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Four areas of Afromontane vegetation in the Huambo and Cuanza Sul provinces and an area of Afromontane forest mosaic further south, on the Serra da Chela in the Huíla province have been mapped.
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The large Kisama National Park is bordered by the Atlantic Coast and the banks of the Cuanza and Longa Rivers and is listed by many to be among critical sites for biodiversity conservation.
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The forest patches are restricted to the deep ravines or remote valleys of the highest mountains in the Huambo and Cuanza Sul provinces and an area of Afromontane forest mosaic further south, on the Serra da Chela in Huíla province.
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In Angola, large mangrove communities occur at the mouths of the Cuvo, Longa, Cuanza, Dande, and M'Bridge Rivers, though they are not as extensive as the vast mangrove swamps at the mouth of the Zaire River.
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Douville more justly concludes that it is the gift of the Cuanza
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Others suppose that it results from the meeting of the Cuanza and the Bengo streams; but the latter outfall would be carried up coast.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Doce and the Cuanza lies the Reino de Angola, of which, they say, the Congo was a dependency, and south of the Cuanza begins the
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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I was shown a little north of the town a place where the Dutch, true to their national instincts, began a canal to supply Loanda with sweet and wholesome drinking material and water communication; others place it with more probability near the confluence of the Cuanza and the Lucala, the first great northern fork, where Massangano was built by the
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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The Cuanza head has been explored only lately, although a royal order to that effect was issued on March 14,
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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