ANGOLA

ANGOLA (República Portuguesa, Portuguese colony).

Infrastructures.
Salazar [now Matala] Dam.
Airmail. Third stamp in a set of 10, issued on 12.07.1965.
Face value: 3 Angolan escudos.
Printed by Casa da Moeda, Lisboa.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.
Size: 40 x 28 mm.

Catalogs
- Afinsa-Mundifil No. CA23.
- Michel No. 516.
- Scott No. C28.
- StampWorld No. 529.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 635.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA18.

Construction of the Matala Dam and Hydroelectric Power Station ended in 1954, on the Kunene River, in Huíla province, at an elevation of approximately 1300 m (4,065 ft) above sea level. After its inauguration, it was renamed Salazar Dam (in honor of the Portuguese dictator). It is crossed by a bridge measuring 929 m (3,048 ft) in length whit two decks, one for cars and the other for trains.