ANGOLA (República Portuguesa, Portuguese colony)
Infrastructures.
Combombe Dam.
Airmail. Second stamp in a set of 10, issued on 12.07.1965.
Face value: 2.50 Angolan escudos.
Printed by Casa da Moeda, Lisboa.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 7,000,000 copies.
Size: 40 x 28 mm.
Catalogs
- Afinsa-Mundifil No. CA22.
- Michel No. 515.
- Scott No. C27.
- StampWorld No. 528.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 634.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 17.
The
Cambambe Hydroelectric Power Station (Portuguese: Central Hidroelétrica de
Cambambe) is a plant across the Cuanza River at the
border between Cuanza
Norte Province and Bengo
Province. The construction of Cambambe Dam was started on October 7, 1959 and finished
in October 6,1963: its height is 132 m (433 ft) and its length is 300 m (980
ft). Following rehabilitation and expansion (since 2013), the generation
capacity of this installation is 960 megawatts (1,290,000 hp).
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