Memorial to Victory of the Cuito Cuanavale Battle
Cuito Cuanavale Airport
Cuito Cuanavale
Cuando Cubango
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Memorial to Victory of the Cuito Cuanavale Battle is a monument in honor of the soldiers of that battle, toured the wall of the heroes, area where are drawn several figures of the combatants fallen in the defense of the national territory, the museum and lit the eternal flame of the memorial.
The memorial symbolises the heroic resistance of the Angolan combatants against the South African armed forces invasion, at the time of the apartheid regime that ruled South Africa.
In the area of the memorial one also finds different infrastructures, some of which are still being built or being finished, such as a conferences centre, one library and one museum where visitors can see the spoils of that battle.