[1] Their territory is in the Namib Desert, bounded by the Serra da Chela mountains to the north and Cunene River to the south.
[1][2] Mucubal people typically wear little clothing, carry machetes or spears, and are renowned for their endurance, sometimes running 50 miles (80 km) in a day.
[2] Their villages typically consist of a group of huts arranged in a circle.
[2] In the 1930s, the Portuguese estimated that there were around 5,000 Mucubal, occupying an area two-thirds the size of Portugal.
According to Rafael Coca de Campos, the operations against the Mucubal constituted genocide.