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Caluquembe

Caluquembe
Municipality and town
Caluquembe is located in Angola
Caluquembe
Caluquembe
Location in Angola
Coordinates: 13°47′S 14°41′E / 13.783°S 14.683°E / -13.783; 14.683Coordinates: 13°47′S 14°41′E / 13.783°S 14.683°E / -13.783; 14.683
Country  Angola
Province Huíla
Population (2006)
 • Total 246,229
Time zone WAT (UTC+1)
Climate Cwb

Caluquembe (Kalukembe) is a town and municipality in the province of Huíla, Angola.

It is also the site of two missionary efforts; one, Roman Catholic and the other, Evangelical Protestant. At the Protestant mission there were for the majority of the past century a Bible school and a hospital run by the Swiss Alliance Missionaire Evangelique.

Caluquembe has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen: Cwb).

Didier Péclard, "Ethos missionnaire et esprit du capitalisme. La Mission Philafricaine en Angola, 1897-1907", _ Le Fait Missionnaire _ (Lausanne), no.1, Mai 1995, 97p.



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