On the way to Huambo, in Benguela province, Balombo is a fertile land with small corners ready to be discovered. Headquarters municipality with the same name, the former Sousa Lara village was forbidden territory for decades on end. It was a dangerous place on the road between two major cities in the south. With the end of the war, Balombo was reborn little by little.
The county was created in 1954. It has 2,635 km² and about 30 thousand inhabitants. Limits to North with the municipality of Cassongue, to the east with the municipality of Londuimbali, to the south with the municipalities of Ukuma, Tchinjenje and Ganda and to the west with the municipality of Bocoio. municipal festivals are on the 3rd of June, you can also visit a little closer to traditional dances like Nhantcho, Njando, Litamba, Chipuete and Tchingunfo. The date is not that of the foundation of the municipality or village, but was transformed into an official one, given that at this time celebrations of harvest, called by locals “otchicuya”. A tradition common to a people who formed with the arrival of inhabitants of the kingdoms of Bailundo, Tchiyaka, Kaconda, Ngaguela and the Ambós.
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