Buco-Zau
Sign in to saveBuco-Zau (also spelled Buco Zau) is a municipality of Cabinda Province, Angola. The municipality is situated within the Maiombe forest and covers an area of . Beginning in the 2000s, logging and oil companies have heavily deforested the area in and around Buco-Zau, leading to conflict with the local populace. Buco-Zau had a population of 32,792 at the time of 2014 census.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Buco-Zau
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_map
- Buco-Zau, Angola Map.jpeg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Angola
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Angola
- Settlement.population_total
- 33,843
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2014
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Cabinda
- Settlement.timezone
- WAT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Angola
- Located in
- Cabinda Province
- Population
- 32792
- Area
- 2115
- Image
- Buco-Zau, Angola Map.jpeg
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- Buco-Zau
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
- Geography
- Demographics
- Economy
- References
Buco-Zau (also spelled Buco Zau) is a municipality of Cabinda Province, Angola. The municipality is situated within the Maiombe forest and covers an area of . Beginning in the 2000s, logging and oil companies have heavily deforested the area in and around Buco-Zau, leading to conflict with the local populace. Buco-Zau had a population of 32,792 at the time of 2014 census.
== Etymology == The name Buco-Zau is of Kikongo origin and was chosen on 19 May 1957 by Simão Toco, an Angolan Christian who proclaimed himself a prophet and founded his own derivative church. In Kikongo, and means "place", "local" or "[town] centre", while means elephants. Buco-Zau can therefore be translated as "place of elephants" or "land of elephants".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Buco-Zau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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