Cuando Cubango Province

Cuando Cubango (Umbundu: Kwando Kubango Volupale) was a former province of Angola.

Throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s, Cuando Cubango served as the location for the primary base camp of Angola's UNITA rebel movement, led by Jonas Savimbi.

Savimbi and UNITA maintained a large and clandestine base camp in the Cubando Cubango town of Jamba.

The camp was protected by anti-aircraft weapons and included an air strip, which was used for the delivery of military and other supplies, which typically arrived from neighboring Zaire.

The province of Cuando Cubango contained nine municipalities (Portuguese: municípios): The province of Cuando Cubango contained the following communes (Portuguese: comunas); sorted by their respective municipalities: Considerable natural habitat previously existed within the province, although much of these areas has been destroyed during the period 1965 to 1991 during the foreign intervention years of the Angolan Civil War.

Cuando Cubango Province