Cuanza
Americannoun
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The industry had been over this territory a decade earlier; a few scattered wells were drilled into the Cuanza basin, and then, having found little oil, the companies plugged them.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2011
By the late fall, the remote Cuanza basin had become the site of a rush.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2011
Circumstances looked particularly prospective to a geophysicist named Jim Farnsworth, who works for Cobalt International Energy, a company that held a group of leases 50 miles from the mouth of Angola’s Cuanza River basin.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2011
Within the Doce and the Cuanza lies the Reino de Angola, of which, they say, the Congo was a dependency, and south of the Cuanza begins the Reino de Benguela.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Others suppose that it results from the meeting of the Cuanza and the Bengo streams; but the latter outfall would be carried up coast.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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