Dundo

Dundo is a mining town and the provincial capital of Lunda Norte in Angola. The city is the home of the football club called Grupo Desportivo Sagrada Esperança, which plays at Estádio Quintalão. The local museum houses objects collected by Hermann Baumann (social anthropologist). Since 2001, the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Dundo is Joaquim Ferreira Lopes.[1]

History

The city was founded and built by the company DIAMANG in 1912, who had the diamond mining concession in Lunda, having ceased to exist and was replaced by the current company Empresa Nacional de Diamantes ENDIAMA. Shortly after it ceased to be the capital of Lunda Norte, it is being built as a new capital called New Dundo. The city owns the airport Dundo, Sagrada Esperança Stadium, Dundo Museum, the Diamond Hotel and Middle Polytechnic Institute August 28 Dundo. Until 1980 extracted from the mines of Dundo was about 10% of the annual world production of gem diamonds, following the outbreak of civil war in Angola, production decreased significantly.The diamond and community development was managed privately by Diamang until 1977 when the Angolan government decided to nationalize.