It is situated in the basin-like hollow of a valley at the confluence of the three brooks named Kupan, Toplica and Rozsdas, all of them rushing towards the valley of Nagy-Baszka. The village which is the highest-lying settlement ( 1071 m) of the historic Haromszek (today Covasna County) and was originally founded at the meeting point of the snow-capped mountains of Haromszek as a simple military base. Later was used as a logging area and it is constantly changing and shaping up to a recreation resort our days. On the Romanian maps Kommando is present as "Comandau".

The village was originally founded at the meeting point of the snow-capped mountain of Haromszek as a simple military base. Comandau has been inhabited since 1889 - born at the same time as the saw factory, which was founded by David Horn. The factory was in operation for exactly 110 years (between 17th October, 1889 and 17th October, 1999) and today we may observe only what was left from it. The factory stopped operating completely, what remain from it is the railway and the workshops. The settlement was recognized as a village in 1936, it appears on the map as Comandau. With a population of 1018, of whom 211 are children; its territory amount is 4451 hectares and there are 395 houses.