Mount Moco
Highest mountain in Angola
At 2,620 metres (8,600 ft), Angola's highest mountain. It stands in Huambo Province, in the country's west, west of the city of Huambo by 70 kilometres (43 mi).
Photo: Benjamin Stauch ( Wikischaaf ( talk )), CC0
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Angola: 10 places worth the journey
Mount Moco, Kalandula Falls, Epupa Falls and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
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What to see in Angola
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Angola and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Kalandula Falls
Waterfall in Malanje Province, Angola
Also spelled Calandula Falls: a curtain of water 400 meters wide and 105 meters high where the Lucala River drops, in Calandula municipality, in Angola's Malanje Province.
Photo: Zorglub, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Epupa Falls
Series of waterfalls in Namibia
A chain of big waterfalls on the Cunene River where it forms the Angola–Namibia border, in the Kaokoland area of the Kunene Region. The river, some 0.5 kilometres (1,600 ft) wide here, drops over falls spread across 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi), the biggest single drop being 37 metres (121 ft).
Photo: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Capanda Dam
Dam in Malanje, Angola
A hydroelectric dam on the Kwanza River in Angola's Malanje Province, built from 1987 to 2007 by the Russian firm Tekhnopromexport to a general design by the Hydroproject institute. Four turbines of 130 megawatts (170,000 hp) each give it an installed capacity of 520 megawatts (700,000 hp).
Photo: Eribeto, CC BY-SA 3.0
Ruacana Falls
Waterfall in Namibia
A waterfall on the Kunene River at Ruacana, Omusati, in Northern Namibia, 120 meters (390 ft) high and, in full flood, 700 meters (2,300 ft) wide.
Photo: ImperatoM, CC BY-SA 3.0
Fortress of São Miguel
17th-century Portuguese fortress in Angola
Also called Saint Michael Fortress, a fortress the Portuguese built in 1576 in the Ingombota District of Luanda, Angola. While the Dutch ruled Angola, between 1641 and 1648, it was called Fort Aardenburgh.
Photo: Erik Cleves Kristensen, CC BY 2.0
Laúca Hydroelectric Power Station
Power station in Angola
Angola's biggest power station, a hydroelectric plant of 2,070 MW (2,775,916 hp).
Photo: Vicente Dias Manuel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Catoca diamond mine
Diamond mine in Angola
A diamond mine in Angola, founded in 1992 and producing since 1997, the fourth largest in the world.
Photo: Gsmart-ao, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ilha de Luanda
Island (sandspit) in Angola
Properly Ilha do Cabo, a low, sandy spit built up by sediment off the shore of Luanda, capital of Angola, on the continent's southwestern coast.
Photo: Paulo César Santos, CC0
Church of Our Lady of Remedies
Church in Luanda, Angola
Luanda's Catholic cathedral, dating from 1628, where the city's archbishop has his seat.
Photo: Àngel Sàez i Pedrero ( User:B25es ), CC BY-SA 3.0
About Angola
Officially the Republic of Angola, a country on Southern Africa's west coast, the seventh-largest in Africa, and after Brazil the second-largest country speaking Portuguese (Lusophone) in both area and population. It borders the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, Zambia on the east and Namibia on the south, with the Atlantic Ocean along its west.
Officially The Republic of Angola.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
Questions travellers ask
What is worth seeing in Angola?
This guide lists 10: Mount Moco, Kalandula Falls, Epupa Falls and Capanda Dam and others.
How were these places chosen?
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Angola that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
What language is spoken in Angola, and what currency?
Kongo, Portuguese. The currency is AOA.
How do I get mobile data in Angola?
A travel eSIM is usually the cheapest way, and avoids a roaming bill. The plans suggested at the foot of this guide start at $16.70 for 1GB for 7 days. The eSIM is data-only and sits alongside your normal SIM, so calls, texts and WhatsApp keep working on your own number.
Which networks would my phone use in Angola?
UNITEL. Your phone picks whichever has the best signal where you are, the same way a local phone does.
One practical note: staying online
Maps, tickets and translation all want data, and roaming is the expensive way to get it. A Computatus eSIM eSIM connects to UNITEL once you land, and installs by QR code before you leave.
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