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The Cunene (Portuguese spelling) or Kunene (common Namibian spelling) [a] is a river in Southern Africa. It flows from the Angola highlands southwards to the border with Namibia . It then flows in a westerly direction along the border until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean .
Kunene is home to the Himba people, a subtribe of the Herero, as well as to Damara people and Nama people. As of 2020, Kunene had 58,548 registered voters. [6] Kunene's western edge is the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. In the north, it borders Angola's Namibe Province, and in the far eastern part of its northern edge it borders Cunene Province ...
Opuwo is the capital of the Kunene Region in north-western Namibia. The town is situated about 720 km north-northwest of the capital Windhoek , and has a population of around 12,300 (2023). It is the commercial hub of the Kunene Region.
Since then, demarcations and numbers of regions and constituencies of Namibia are tabled by delimitation commissions and accepted or declined by the National Assembly. In 1992, the 1st Delimitation Commission, chaired by Judge President Johan Strydom, proposed that Namibia should be divided into 13 regions. The suggestion was approved in the ...
Kaokoland was an administrative unit and a Bantustan in northern South West Africa (now Namibia).Established in 1980 during the apartheid era, it was intended to be a self-governing homeland of the Ovahimba, but an actual government was never established, and the territory was administered by the leaders of Hereroland.
Okashandja Combined School, situated 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of Ondangwa in the Uukwiyu Constituency. Established in 1937 by Finnish missionaries. Established in 1937 by Finnish missionaries. In 2010 the school had 16 teachers and 460 learners, about half of them orphans or otherwise vulnerable children.
Tourism in Namibia is a major industry, contributing N$7.2 billion ( equal to US$ 390 million ) to the country's gross domestic product. Annually, over one million travelers visit Namibia, with roughly one in three coming from South Africa, then Germany and finally the United Kingdom, Italy and France.
Kunene - south and west; The region got its name from the Mopane tree (omusati: Ndonga: Mopane) which is the dominant species in the region. The Makalani palms decrease rapidly westwards from the border with Oshana region. The change in vegetation type reflects ecological conditions forming a natural boundary between the two regions.