{"id":14551,"date":"2021-07-19T20:25:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T18:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kanaga-at.com\/info-viaggi\/the-kalandula-waterfalls\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T11:49:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T09:49:48","slug":"the-kalandula-falls","status":"publish","type":"info_viaggi","link":"https:\/\/www.kanaga-at.com\/en\/trip-info\/angola-2\/the-kalandula-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kalandula Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\"><b>The verdant Malanje province in the centre north of the country is home to one of Angola&#8217;s most important natural heritage resources, the mighty Kalandula Falls<\/b><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">400 kilometres far from Luanda, <b>Malanje <\/b>is an excellent base for discovering the province of the same name<span class=\"s1\">.<\/span> Founded by Portuguese settlers in 1852 and <span class=\"s1\">connected<\/span> to the capital in 1909 by a railway line (still in operation after modernisation in 2012), this town was a hub of cotton production in the first half <span class=\"s1\">of <\/span>the 20th century. Passing through a lush landscape, dominated by the impressive rock formations of the <b>Pedras Negras de Pungo Andongo<\/b>, where the spirit of Queen Njinga, leader of the resistance against the Portuguese, is said to still live, you arrive at one of the most impressive sites on the African continent: the <b>Kalandula Falls<\/b>. Christened Quedas do Duque du Braganca in colonial times, the horseshoe-shaped waterfalls, about a hundred metres wide and up to 550 metres high during the rainy season, are the second most powerful <span class=\"s1\">in <\/span>Africa after Victoria Falls. 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