Lubango
Lubango, formerly known as Sá da Bandeira, is a municipality in Angola, capital of the Huíla Province, with a population of 890,384 in 2024.
Lubango, formerly known as Sá da Bandeira, is a municipality in Angola, capital of the Huíla Province, with a population of 890,384 in 2024. The city center had a population of 805,272 in 2024 making it the second-most populous city in Angola after the capital city Luanda.
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Worth seeing in and around Lubango
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Tundavala National Stadium
Tundavala National Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Lubango, Huíla Province, Angola. Completed in 2010, it is used mostly for football matches and hosted some events of the 2010 African Cup of Nations.
5.4 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 02Mandume ya Ndemufayo University
Mandume ya Ndemufayo University is a public university in Lubango, Angola, established in 1963 named after the late Kwanyama King Mandume ya Ndemufayo. The university emerged from the dismemberment of the Lubango campus of the Agostinho Neto University in the midst of the reforms in Angolan higher education that occurred in the years 2008 and 2009.
1.6 km · public university in Lubango, Angola · Wikipedia - 03Estádio Nossa Senhora do Monte
Estádio de Nossa Senhora do Monte is a multi-use stadium in Lubango, Angola. In 2010, the stadium underwent major renovation in the framework of the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations to serve as the group D training ground.
3.8 km · building in Angola · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Sé Catedral de São José
Praça 1° de Maio (Centro histórico).
- 02Cristo Rei
At the top of the hill, overlooking the city, a giant statue of the Christ similar to the Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro.
- 03Fenda da Tundavala
Impressive cliff with a panoramic viewpoint.
From Wikivoyage: Lubango, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Estádio Nossa Senhora do Monte
Multi-use stadium, most often used to host football matches hosted by the local club C.D.
From Wikivoyage: Lubango, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Café do Monte
Agostinho Neto (next to Shoprite supermarket).
- 02Restaurante Lana
Rua Boulevard do Mucufi (next to the Mucufi river, between Rua Aníbal de Melo and E280).
- 03Restaurante Katedral
Avenida 4 de Fevereiro (on Praça 1° de Maio).
From Wikivoyage: Lubango, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Lubango
- Stations
- Lubango Airport, 8.3 km · 1983 TAAG Angola Airlines 737 Boeing crash, 8.1 km
- Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo) → Lubango638 km · quickest by road, 18h 36m · $75–105
- Luanda → Lubango677 km · quickest by road, 17h 20m · $70–100
- Walvis Bay(Rooikop) → Lubango905 km · quickest by road, 17h 37m · $90–125
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Lubango
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lubango. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe white and blue shared minibus run along the main roads (R.
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