Camucuio is located 234 kilometers north of the city of Moçâmedes, has more than 60 thousand inhabitants, the majority of whom are farmers and cattle herders.
With an extension of 700,452 square kilometers, the municipality has three communes, namely Cacimbas, Chingo and Mamue, limited to the south by the municipalities of Bibala and Moçâmedes and to the north by Quilengues (Huíla) and Chongoroi (Benguela).The region has a dry tropical semi-desert climate, annual rainfall of 150 mm, with a temperature that reaches an average of up to 30 degrees Celsius.

The inhabitants are distributed among different ethnic groups, with greater emphasis on the mucubais, nhanecas humbi, ovimbundu, mucuisses and mutchilengues. In this region we find several tourist sites.

Etymology
The name "Camucuio" comes from a term used by the Mucubal people, coming from the Nhaneca language. When coming from their hunts, they would pass by a tree called mucuio, addressing it as "ca-mucuio", in the diminutive degree of the same word.

History
It was founded on October 11, 1917 as a colonial enterprise to occupy land.