Orango

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The Ilha de Orango, including Ilha de Grande Orango or simply Orango, is an island of Guinea-Bissau belonging archipelago of Bissagos Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

With 122.7 km ² Orango is to Formosa ( 140.3 km ² ) is the second largest island of the archipelago. Capital is Eticoga in the northwest. From the neighboring islands to the east and south Orango is separated only by narrow inlets. So the Rio Anabaca separates the north- east, the island is 400 meters away from Canongo, and south of the 730 meters distant island Meneque. In the south, a meandering, only 75 meters wide estuary separates the island of Imbane Orango.

The island lies in the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve was like the other islands of the archipelago - except the ports of the northern region and the neighboring Cacheu Bubaque - not colonized. Thus, the predominantly animist beliefs and rituals of the residents could get. The Austrian ethnologist Hugo Bernatzik lived in the 1930s and conducted research on Orango on the matriarchal way of life.

Administratively Orango belongs to the sector Uno Bolama region. Until the new direction of the sector Uno in 2004, the island belonged to Bubaque sector.