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Country
  
Angola

Climate
  
Cwb

Local time
  
Thursday 6:50 PM

Time zone
  
WAT (UTC+1)

Area
  
1,261 km²

Province
  
Huíla Province

Humpata

Weather
  
14°C, Wind SE at 3 km/h, 99% Humidity

Humpata is a town and municipality in the province of Huíla, Angola.

Map of Humpata, Angola

Humpata was the primary destination of the Trekboers on the Dorsland Trek in the 1870s. These Afrikaners formed the majority population in the area for some time, before leaving to South West Africa after World War I, though some stayed until 1975, on the onset of the Angolan Civil War.

References

Humpata Wikipedia


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