Namacunde Explained

Namacunde
Other Name:Namakunde
Settlement Type:Municipality and town
Pushpin Map:Angola
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Mapsize:250
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Angola
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Angola
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Cunene Province
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Km2:10701
Population As Of:2014 Census
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:142,047
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Utc Offset:+1
Coordinates:-17.3°N 66°W
Elevation M:1110
Blank Name Sec1:Climate
Blank Info Sec1:BSh

Namacunde or Namakunde is a town and municipality in Cunene Province in Angola.[2] The municipality had a population of 142,047 in 2014.[3]

History as a mission station

Namacunde was a mission station of the Rhenish Mission Society in Oukwanyama in southern Angola, located 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.[4]

Transport

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

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Resultados Definitivos Recenseamento Geral da População e Habitação – 2014 Província do Cunene . 3 May 2020 . Instituto Nacional de Estatística, República de Angola. dmy .
  2. Web site: City councils of Angola. Statoids. April 9, 2009.
  3. Web site: Resultados Definitivos Recenseamento Geral da População e Habitação – 2014 Província do Cunene . 3 May 2020 . Instituto Nacional de Estatística, República de Angola. dmy .
  4. Book: Peltola, Matti . Sata vuotta suomalaista lähetystyötä 1859–1959. II: Suomen Lähetysseuran Afrikan työn historia . ‘One Hundred Years of Finnish Missionary Work 1859–1959. II: The History of FMS’s Missionary Work in Africa’ . 1958 . The Finnish Missionary Society . Helsinki . 173, 180, 182, 196 .