Explore Nkurenkuru and Katwitwi on the Kavango River. Poorest region of Namibia.

Kavango West is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia. Its capital and only self-governed settlement is Nkurenkuru, its governor is Sirkka Ausiku. The Region was created in 2013 when the Kavango Region was split into Kavango East and Kavango West. In the north, Kavango West borders the Cuando Cubango Province of Angola. Domestically, it borders the regions of Kavango East to the east, Otjozondjupa to the south, Oshikoto to the west and Ohangwena to the northwest.

Because of its rather high rainfall compared to most other parts of Namibia and its location on the Kavango River after which it was named, this region has agricultural potential for the cultivation of a variety of crops, as well as for organised forestry and agro-forestry, which stimulates furniture making and related industries. Kavango West and its sister region Kavango East are nevertheless the poorest regions in Namibia.

Katwitwi is a border crossing in the Kavango West region in the north of Namibia, approximately 35 km northwest of the town of Nkurenkuru. The settlement was granted in 2016[1] and is located on the left bank of the Kavango River at the border to Angola. The border crossing was connected to Tsumeb by the national road B15 in December 2013

Nkurenkuru (1.093 m above sea level) is a town on the south-western banks of the Kavango River. It is the capital of the Kavango West Region of northern Namibia, located 140 kilometres (87 mi) west of Rundu. It is also a former mission station of the Finnish Missionary Society.

Nkurenkuru has a population of around 10,261 (in 2023) inhabitants and is homestead of the local Uukwangali kings. Until 1936 it has been the capital of the region, after which the seat of the regional government was moved to Rundu, due to its strategically more central location. In 2013 it became a regional capital again, of the newly created Region of Kavango West. Nkurenkuru is the smallest town in Namibia, and the only self-governed settlement in the Region of Kavango West. On the opposite, north-eastern banks of the river lies Cuangar in Angola and the two towns are linked via a nearby border post.

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0:00 B10 northward
0:43 B11 or D3405 to Katwitwi
1:44 Katwitwi
3:37 informal river crossing point
4:34 B10 southward
5:16 detour to river
5:46 wild camp
6:23 B10 south to Nkurenkuru
7:53 Nkurenkuru
13:15 D3403 northward
15:39 B10 northwards

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