Belas, Luanda
Belas | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
| Country | Angola |
| Province | Luanda |
| Ponta das Palmeirinhas Lighthouse | |
| Constructed | 1889 (first) 1936 (second) |
| Foundation | concrete base |
| Construction | steel skeletal tower (current) steel skeletal tower (first) cast iron skeletal tower (second & third) |
| Height | 27 metres (89 ft) (current) 27 metres (89 ft) (first) 23 metres (75 ft) (second) |
| Shape | quadrangular skeletal tower with balcony and light (current) square pyramidal skeletal tower atop a 1-storey building (first) octagonal pyramidal skeletal tower with balcony and lantern (second) |
| Power source | solar power |
| Operator | Instituto Marítimo e Portuário de Angola |
| First lit | 1889 |
| Focal height | 40 metres (130 ft) (current) |
| Range | 21 nautical miles (39 km; 24 mi) |
| Characteristic | Fl W 4.5s. |
| Angola no. | PT-5250 |
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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.