Cuchi is a town and municipality in Cuando Cubango Province in Angola . The population of the municipality was 42,974 in 2014.
4-467: It is served by a station on the southern main line of South Angolan Railways . Average annual temperatures range from −2 to 18 °C. 14°39′0″S 16°54′0″E / 14.65000°S 16.90000°E / -14.65000; 16.90000 This Angola location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mo%C3%A7%C3%A2medes Railway The Moçâmedes Railway ( Portuguese : Caminho de Ferro de Moçâmedes (CFM) )
8-519: Is an 860 km railway line in Angola , between Moçâmedes and Menongue . The line is operated by the company Caminhos de Ferro de Moçâmedes E.P. The port city of Moçâmedes was renamed Namibe between 1985 and 2016, so the railway was sometimes called the Namibe Railway ( Portuguese : Caminho de Ferro do Namibe ). However, the railway company retained its original legal name. Its cargo flow point
12-474: Is made through the port of Namibe . Construction began on the railway in 1905, when Angola was a Portuguese colony. The railway was opened to traffic in 1910, and continued to be extended inland until it reached its current terminus at Menongue (formerly Serpa Pinto) in December 1961. The line was originally built with 600 mm ( 1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in ) narrow gauge track, but it
16-600: Was re-gauged to 3 ft 6 in ( 1,067 mm ) Cape gauge in 1950, matching the gauge of other lines in Angola and southern Africa. After Angola obtained its independence from Portugal in 1975, the Angolan Civil War broke out, resulting in the destruction of most of Angola's railway infrastructure. When the fighting ended in 2002, the Angolan government sought to restore rail service. The China Hyway Group rebuilt
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