Caála

Caála
Municipality and town
Caála Location in Angola
Coordinates: 12°51′09″S 15°33′38″E / 12.85250°S 15.56056°E / -12.85250; 15.56056
Country	Angola
Province	Huambo Province
Area
• Municipality and town	1,420 sq mi (3,680 km2)
Population (2006)
• Municipality and town	45,239
• Density	32/sq mi (12/km2)
• Metro	373,035
Time zone	WAT (UTC+1)
Climate	Cwb

Caála is a town located in Huambo Province in Angola. It was known as Vila Robert Williams while Angola was a Portuguese colony, after the famous railroad developer and mining magnate, Sir Robert Williams. The town's last known population count was 45,239.

History

Vila Robert Williams was the former name of Caála, in the then Portuguese Angola (before 1975). The town of Robert Williams was just west of Nova Lisboa (now Huambo) and was remarkable for huge outcroppings of boulders that jutted from the fields just outside the town. In those outcroppings researchers could find pottery shards, primitive metal smelting pits, and other archeological detritus.

See also

• Sir Robert Williams

Transport

Caala is served by a station on the Benguela Railway and is also the junction for a branch railway to Cuima.

See also

• Railway stations in Angola

References

Coordinates: 12°51′09″S 15°33′38″E / 12.85250°S 15.56056°E / -12.85250; 15.56056

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