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- Kunene Region
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The Kunene Region, named after the
mighty river on its northern border shared with Angola,
comprises of two distinctly different parts:
The northern part, supplied with goods from
its only town Opuwo, constitutes the legendary Kaokoveld or
Kaokoland
- home of the Herero-speaking Himba people and of some of Namibia's
most difficult to access areas.
Dense forests and widely spread out traditional settlements of the
OvaHimba line the route from Opuwo to the Epupa Falls of the Kunene
River.
Images of the most remote areas of the Namib Desert's Skeleton
Coast, of the Marienfluss Valley, the infamous Van Zyl's Pass
and countless other spectacular landscape features have been
published in an ever-growing number of coffee-table books for
their stark beauty and eerie serenity.
The Ruacana Falls of the
Kunene River, on the region's north-eastern boundary to |
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Omusati Region, feed Namibia's only hydro-electric
power plant.
Further south, towards
Sesfontein, the Kunene Region becomes slightly more populated and
easier to travel but still remains 4x4 country for its better part.
The historic fort at Sesfontein, the Ongongo Waterfall, and
tracking the elusive Desert Elephant in the Hoanib River nowadays
count amongst the most popular tourist attractions.
Steadily
growing tracks of land under tribal authority and their diverse wildlife populations are
protected in communal Conservancies. These serve the local
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The Hartmann's Mountain Zebra is a common inhabitant of the
Kaokoveld, in Namibia's northern Kunene Region.
Stripes along the entire length of its legs make it easy to tell the
Mountain Zebra
apart from the Burchell's Zebra whose
stripes fade away towards the hooves.
The Burchell's or Plains Zebra occurs in far greater numbers and is
regularly seen
on the savannas all over Namibia.
Photo: I. Ohm
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alternative sources of income
from photo tourism and regulated hunting, and thus encourage the reduction of
ecologically detrimental land utilisation practices such as
over-grazing.
Conservancies continue
in the Kunene Region's southern part, better known as Damaraland.
Even though settlements and farms of the Damara people can be found
as far south as the Brandberg Mountain, only the northern areas of
Damaraland have been integrated into the Kunene Region while the
southern areas were consolidated with the Erongo Region. Khorixas,
the only town in the south of the Kunene Region, is the regions
administrative centre. -
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