Mueda
Sign in to saveMueda is the largest town of the Makonde Plateau in northeastern Mozambique. It is the capital of the Mueda District in Cabo Delgado Province. It is the center of the culture of the Makondes, and the production of their ebony sculptures.
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- Locality
- Nido
- Region
- Cabo Delgado
- Country
- Moçambique
- Population
- 27,274
- Timezone
- Africa/Maputo
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Mueda
- Settlement.image_skyline
- MuedaMassacre.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Mueda Town Square, site of the 1960 massacre
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mozambique
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Provinces
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Cabo Delgado Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Mueda District
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2006
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 249
- Settlement.elevation_ft
- 820
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- administrative post of Mozambique
- Country
- Mozambique
- Located in
- Mueda District
- Elevation
- 249
- Image
- MuedaMassacre.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Climate
- History
- Massacre of Mueda
- War for independence
- Images from Mueda
- Notes
- External links
Mueda is the largest town of the Makonde Plateau in northeastern Mozambique. It is the capital of the Mueda District in Cabo Delgado Province. It is the center of the culture of the Makondes, and the production of their ebony sculptures.
==Geography== Mueda is located on the upland Mueda Plateau, which has a more temperate climate than the coast, but where, because of the permeable sandy soil, water infiltrates to a great depth, making it difficult to supply drinking water. In about 1970, Portugal, the ruling authority of Mozambique at the time, built a system to supply drinkable water, under the direction of the engineer Canhoto. In the 1980s, after the independence of Mozambique from Portugal, the system was rebuilt by the Mozambican government, with the assistance of UNICEF and Swiss co-operation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mueda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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