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Kaoko-Otavi

Kaoko-Otavi Kaoko-Otavi is a place in Kaokoland, Kunene region, Namibia; it has just changed from a farmstead to a village in recent years. Kaoko-Otavi is a village about 40km on the south of Opuwo. It is known for its permanent water reservoir or fountain which is surrounded by Ficus sycormorus (wild fig) called Omukuyu in Herero. It has a temperature range of between 18-30 decree Celsius and it has a south east wind which blows at an average 14km/h; and it is on a grid of 18°18'0" from the equator.

Waterhole Herero and Himba women

 Wild figs

It has been inhabited by the Herero (Ovatjimba and Ovandamuranda) people from around the place like from Otjahorovara, Okorosave, Ondjete, Oruvandjei and Ozonungu apparently and I hope soon or later it will become a town. Residents here are still practice or are substance farmers, farming with herds of goat and sheep, cattle and the as well have some horses, donkeys and chickens. 
 

There is a combine school, agriculture extension office and a shop and a bottle store which is why it are to become a town and no more a village because many people these days are inhibiting the place. There is network coverage and electricity too, apparently; and very much important there these stones the Himba people extract and use to apply on their skins. Kaoko-Otavi is situated on the way to the Skeleton coast or rather Orupembe Game Reserve, from Opuwo, so it has been also a very well visited take off place by tourist from Opuwo to Orupembe.

Kaoko-Otavi is very famous for its beautiful natural features; river, baobab trees (Adansonia digitata), valleys, mountains and flat plains and there almost 2/3 of the land animals (small-large antelopes and carnivores) found in Namibia. It is like or indeed it is a capital village of all those villages in the south of Opuwo, as all the matters concerning the people in these areas are being resorved at Kaoko-Otavi, it is actually like is where there is a cultural headquarter of these people from all villages around.