Longonjo
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The municipality is divided into four subdistricts or communes:
- Longonjo: 60 villages, 529 square kilometres (204 sq mi)
- Catabola: 36 villages, 501 square kilometres (193 sq mi)
- Chilata: 57 villages, 887 square kilometres (342 sq mi)
- Lepi: 57 villages 426 square kilometres (164 sq mi)
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Economy
Like most of Huambo province, the economy of Longonjo municipality is primarily agrarian, both farming and livestock raising; however Pensana's subsidiary Ozango Minerals has plans to open a rare earth mine there, in the Longonjo carbonatite intrusion (Mount Chibilundo).
There has been extensive deforestation due to the production of charcoal that supplies Angolan urban areas. This has produced additional pasture for cattle.