As a result of the settlers' presence, a cemetery was built on the site, distinguished from others by the fact that the first settlers were buried there. A church was also built on the site, becoming one of the important symbols of the religious presence of that period in the area.
Lubango's zero point is known as “Barracões”.

In 1885, the first Portuguese settlers arrived here and founded the Sá da Bandeira colony. A visit to the city's origins.
The Chela highlands had been known since 1630. The climate and agricultural potential immediately attracted Portuguese interest.
Agricultural settlements such as Alba Nova (1769) and Humpata (1882) began to emerge throughout the region.

With the aim of establishing a new area for agricultural and livestock exploitation, the first settlers arrived in the lands of present-day Lubango on 19 January 1885.
They were 222 Portuguese settlers from the island of Madeira. On the banks of the Caculuvar River, three kilometres from the centre of the current provincial capital, they erected two enormous wattle-and-daub structures with thatched roofs (one for men and the other for women), where they temporarily settled.
These “barracks” gave the place its name.