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Catabola

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.

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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.