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Namacunde

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Country
  
Time zone
  
WAT (UTC+1)

Area
  
10,701 km²

Province
  
Elevation
  
3,640 ft (1,110 m)

Climate
  
BSh

Local time
  
Monday 9:32 AM

Namacunde

Weather
  
26°C, Wind NE at 18 km/h, 52% Humidity

Namacunde or Namakunde is a town and municipality in Cunene Province in Angola.

Contents

Map of Namacunde, Angola

History as a mission station

Namacunde was a mission station of the Rhenish Mission Society in Oukwanyama in southern Angola, located 25 kilometres (16 mi) to the south-east of Ondjiva.

Namacunde mission was founded in 1900 by the German missionary Wilhelm Ickler. At the time it was thought that the area was part of German South West Africa. Just as Ickler had begun the construction of the third mission German mission station in Oukwanyama, he fell ill with malaria and blackwater fever and died on 22 June 1900.

In November 1915 the Germans had to leave Namacunde, as it became the border station between Portuguese West Africa and British South West Africa.

Transport

Namakunde lies on the route of the proposed railway linking Angola and Namibia.

References

Namacunde Wikipedia


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