Catabola
Sign in to saveCatabola is a town and municipality in Bié Province in central Angola. It is located by road northeast of Kuito, on the road to Camacupa. The municipality had a population of 126,631 in 2014.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Catabola
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Angola
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Angola
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Bié Province
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 2857
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2014 Census
- Settlement.population_total
- 126631
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_urban
- 28831
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.timezone
- WAT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
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Catabola is a town and municipality in Bié Province in central Angola. It is located by road northeast of Kuito, on the road to Camacupa. The municipality had a population of 126,631 in 2014.
==History== Before 1975 the main town was known as "Nova Sintra". On 20 February 1996, the Forças Armadas de Angola (FAA) attacked a UNITA garrison in Lisusu, about from Catabola. It was captured along with towns such as Andulo, Bailundo, Camapuca and Chiguar during the FAA Christmas Offensive of December 1999. Numerous local government officials and sympathizers of the government were killed during the attack.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Catabola” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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