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The city of Kilamba is part of municipality of Belas (Province of Luanda - Angola), is located northwest of the city of Luanda, at a distance of approximately 30 km from the city. It was inaugurated on 11th of July 2011 by the current angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos. The project includes 3 phases with a total of 82,000 houses (apartments), it occupies an area of 880 ha and is estimated to have an occupation of 120,000 inhabitants (1st Phase). The first phase was projected and designed for 119 thousand people distributed in 115 buildings in a total of 3,188 apartments. From the urbanistic point of view, the urban outlined design for the city is defined by orthogonal reticulate mesh, based on a linear track of road axes, hierarchical well define, with a transverse orientation north / south, and longitudinal spring / west, which generates 44 blocks. The central area is mostly occupied by services and trade offices, public green belts to stay and leisure. It is also provided essential equipment such as: kindergarten, primary schools, secondary schools, centers of support and encouragement for children, hospital, market, public transport terminal, areas of trade and services, areas to stay, etc. Regarding the residential area the plan provides for 20,002 dwellings (Phase 1), which are distributed in buildings of high, medium and low density 5, to 13 storeys. It's the biggest habitational project ever being built in Angola's history and the main objectives is to increase the living conditions of the populations, to program the urban growth and to make Luanda one of the biggest and most beautiful city of Africa or even of the World. Kilamba is being built to respond the modern requisites of as those of other countries in of the first world.