Rangel is a town and one of the seven municipalities that make up the province of Luanda, as per the new administrative division of the province (the others being, Belas, Cazenga, Cacuaco, Viana, Icolo e Bengo and Quiçama. Viana lies 15 to 30 kilometers east as a suburb of the capital Luanda and is home to 68.000 inhabitants including about 6,000 long-term refugees, primarily from Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Viana is about a 90 minute drive from downtown Luanda.