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Country
  
Namibia

Climate
  
BWh

Local time
  
Tuesday 6:40 AM

Time zone
  
SAST (UTC+1)

Population
  
3,683 (2011)

Aranos

Weather
  
20°C, Wind NE at 19 km/h, 88% Humidity

Aranos is a settlement in Hardap Region, Namibia. Since August 2010 it has town status. The place normally receives an annual average rainfall of 188 millimetres (7.4 in), although in the 2010/2011 rainy season 505 millimetres (19.9 in) were measured.

Contents

Map of Aranos, Namibia

Politics

Aranos is governed by a town council that currently has seven seats.

In the 2010 local authority election, SWAPO received the most votes with 546. The Democratic Turnhalle Alliance finished in 2nd place with 205 votes, followed by the Rally for Democracy and Progress (186), SWANU (17) and the Congress of Democrats (15).

People

Aranos is the birthplace of former member of the National Assembly of Namibia Jurie Viljoen and human rights activist Pauline Dempers.

References

Aranos Wikipedia