Caluquembe

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Caluquembe
Municipality and town
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 Huila Province
Population (2006)
  Total 246,229
Time zone WAT (UTC+1)

Caluquembe (Kalukembe) is a town and municipality in Huíla Province, 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.

References

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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