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Cubango, Niterói

human settlement in Brazil

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ10262079 ↗
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See Cubango for namesakes, notably in Africa

Cubango is a neighborhood located in the northwest of the city Niterói, Rio de Janeiro (state), Brazil. It is famous for hosting the samba school Acadêmicos do Cubango that competes in the Rio Carnival.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cubango, Niterói” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.