Belas

About Belas

Belas is a city and one of the nine municipalities that make up the province of Luanda, as per the new administrative division of the province (the others being, Luanda, Cazenga, Cacuaco, Viana, Icolo e Bengo and Quiçama).

Belas was created by an administrative reform voted by the Angolan parliament on March 31, 2011. The administrative center is neighborhood Quilamba and the municipality administrator is Mrs. Joana Antónia Quintas.

The municipality of Belas has an area of 1,046 km2 (404 sq mi).

The municipality has a population of 1,271,854 (2019) with a population density of 1,216/km2.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA. Photography via Wikimedia Commons.