Caluquembe
| Caluquembe | |
|---|---|
| Municipality and town | |
  Caluquembe Location in Angola | |
| Coordinates: 13°47′S 14°41′E / 13.783°S 14.683°ECoordinates: 13°47′S 14°41′E / 13.783°S 14.683°E | |
| Country |
 Angola |
| Province | Huíla |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 246,229 |
| Time zone | WAT (UTC+1) |
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.
Climate
Caluquembe has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen: Cwb).
| Climate data for Caluquembe | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 18.4 (65.1) |
18.4 (65.1) |
18.8 (65.8) |
18.7 (65.7) |
16.6 (61.9) |
14.7 (58.5) |
14.7 (58.5) |
16.7 (62.1) |
18.9 (66) |
19.8 (67.6) |
19.3 (66.7) |
18.6 (65.5) |
17.8 (64.04) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 159 (6.26) |
156 (6.14) |
283 (11.14) |
130 (5.12) |
7 (0.28) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
1 (0.04) |
8 (0.31) |
106 (4.17) |
164 (6.46) |
182 (7.17) |
1,196 (47.09) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org[1] | |||||||||||||
References
- ↑ "Climate: Caluquembe". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
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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