Tende

Tende lies in the inland hills south of the Kwanza, in a region associated with the old kingdom of Libolo and its neighbours. Libolo's rulers bore the title hango and appointed officials to govern districts in their name. By the middle of the sixteenth century the growing power of Ndongo had confined Libolo south of the Kwanza. Portuguese expeditions entered the region in the late seventeenth century, but their campaigns did not establish lasting control over it.