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Town in Lunda Sul, northeastern Angola

Saurimo

Saurimo, formerly known as Henrique de Carvalho, is a city in Angola.

Saurimo
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The place

Saurimo, formerly known as Henrique de Carvalho, is a city in Angola. It is the capital of Lunda Sul Province. As of 2024, Saurimo has a population of 589,792, which steadily grows as a result of migration.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Saurimo

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

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    Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, Saurimo

    The Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral also called Saurimo Cathedral Is the name given to a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church which is located in the city of Saurimo in the province of Lunda Sul in the northeast of the African country of Angola. The current structure was built between 1958 and 1959 and received official blessing only in 1961 when Angola was still a dependency of Portugal.

    700 m · church in Saurimo, Angola · Wikipedia

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Getting to Saurimo

Stations
Saurimo Airport, 5.4 km
  • Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo) → Saurimo
    716 km · quickest by road, 15h 25m · $70–95
  • Luanda → Saurimo
    791 km · quickest by road, 16h 44m · $75–105
  • Kinshasa → Saurimo
    816 km · quickest by road, 24h 21m · $100–140
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Saurimo

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Saurimo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    South Luangwa National Park and MfuweZM

    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

    1,300 km
  2. 02
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,407 km
  3. 03
    Cape Maclear (Chembe)MW

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

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  4. 04
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,666 km
  5. 05
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    1,717 km

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