N'dalatando

N'dalatando stands in the agricultural country of Cazengo, north of the Lucala River in the hills of Angola's interior. The place takes its name from the chiefdom of Ndala Ntandu. Portuguese military intervention reached the chiefdom in the seventeenth century, after which a resident chief was appointed to maintain contact with the region's sobas, or local rulers. In the 1830s Portuguese traders and farmers began arriving in the area from Dondo and crossing the Lucala to settle in Cazengo.