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The Best Attractions In Oshikoto Region

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Oshikoto is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, named after Lake Otjikoto near its former capital Tsumeb. The capital of Oshikoto is Omuthiya. The northern part of the region is agricultural, whereas the main economic activities in the southern part are cattle rearing and mining. The two areas have important cultural and historical links in that the Ndonga people have extracted copper at Tsumeb since the earliest times in order to make rings and tools. Oshikoto is one of only three regions without either a shoreline or a foreign border. It borders the following regions: Ohangwena - north Kavango - east Otjozondjupa - southeast Kunene - southwest Os...
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The Best Attractions In Oshikoto Region

  • 1. Okaukuejo waterhole Etosha National Park
    Okaukuejo is the administrative center for the Etosha National Park in Namibia. It is approximately 650 km from the capital Windhoek. The place normally receives an annual average rainfall of around 350 millimetres , although in the 2010/2011 rainy season 676 millimetres were measured.Originally the western end of the Red Line, a veterinary control demarcation established in 1896, and the site of a German fort built in 1901, Okaukuejo now houses the Etosha Ecological Institute, founded in 1974; the round watchtower is a remnant of the fort. A major draw for tourists is the permanent waterhole, illuminated at night, which draws all types of wildlife, including elephants, lions and black rhinoceros, particularly during the lengthy dry season. The Namibian National Park Service also maintains...
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  • 2. Tsumeb Museum Tsumeb
    Tsumeb is a city of 15,000 inhabitants and the largest town in Oshikoto region in northern Namibia. Tsumeb is the gateway to the north of Namibia. It is the closest town to the Etosha National Park. Tsumeb used to be the regional capital of Oshikoto until 2008 when Omuthiya was proclaimed a town and the new capital. The area around Tsumeb forms its own electoral constituency and has a population of 44,113. The town is the site of a deep mine , that in its heyday was known simply as The Tsumeb Mine but has since been renamed the Ongopolo Mine.
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  • 4. Otjikoto Lake Tsumeb
    Otjikoto Lake is the smaller of only two permanent natural lakes in Namibia. It is a sinkhole lake that was created by a collapsing karst cave. It is located 20 kilometres north-west of Tsumeb and only 100 meters from the main road B1. The lake was declared a national monument in 1972.The diameter of the lake is 102 metres ; its depth is undetermined. According to a Namibian tourism information organisation, the depth varies from sixty two meters at the side to one hundred meters in the center, and in some places leading off from the side depths of one hundred meters have been recorded, while an article in the Allgemeine Zeitung explains the depth problem: the lake tapers into a lateral cave system making it impossible to determine its exact depth, estimated to be in access of 142 meters. ...
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  • 5. Lake Guinas Oshikoto Region
    Otjikoto Lake is the smaller of only two permanent natural lakes in Namibia. It is a sinkhole lake that was created by a collapsing karst cave. It is located 20 kilometres north-west of Tsumeb and only 100 meters from the main road B1. The lake was declared a national monument in 1972.The diameter of the lake is 102 metres ; its depth is undetermined. According to a Namibian tourism information organisation, the depth varies from sixty two meters at the side to one hundred meters in the center, and in some places leading off from the side depths of one hundred meters have been recorded, while an article in the Allgemeine Zeitung explains the depth problem: the lake tapers into a lateral cave system making it impossible to determine its exact depth, estimated to be in access of 142 meters. ...
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