Location:	Caprivi, Namibia
Area:	19,532km² (7,541 mi²)
Population:	79,852 (2001), 90,422 (1991)
Capital:	Katima Mulilo
Time Zone:	South African Standard Time: UTC+1
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Caprivi, sometimes called the Caprivi Strip or Caprivi Region and formally known as Itenge, is a narrow protrusion of Namibia eastwards about 450km, between Botswana on the south, Angola and Zambia to the north, and Kavango. Caprivi is bordered by the Cuando, Linyanti, Chobe and Zambezi Rivers. Its largest city is Katima Mulilo. Credit: Sascha Noyes, 2004 Info: Map of the Capriviin Region in Namibia; Created with the GIMP File links The following pages link to this file: Caprivi Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps/Archive1 Constituencies of Namibia Kongola Linyanti Sibinda Katima Mulilo Urban Katima Mulilo Rural Kabe Template:Constituencies of Caprivi Categories: GFDL... Katima Mulilo Katima Mulilo is a small town that serves as the administrative center of the Caprivi Strip of Namibia. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... The Kavango people reside on the Namibian side of the Namibian-Angolan border. ... The Cuando River (sometimes transliterated Kwando) is a river in central Africa. ... Zambezi River in North Western Zambia The Zambezi (also spelled Zambesi) is a river in Southern Africa. ...

Geography

The Caprivi is a heavily tropical area, with high temperatures and much rainfall during the December-to-March rainy season, making it the wettest region of Namibia. The terrain is mostly made up of swamps, floodplains, wetland, and woodland. The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. ... The wet season is a term commonly used when describing the weather in the tropics. ... A freshwater swamp A swamp is a wetland that features permanent inundation of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water, generally with a substantial number of hummocks, or dry-land protrusions. ... In geography, a floodplain is an area of relatively level land that is inundated from time to time. ... A subtropical wetland in Florida, USA, with an endangered American Crocodile. ... Biologically, a woodland is differentiated from a forest. ...

It also is home to 450 animal species, including elephants, making Caprivi a popular game-watching spot. The wildlife is protected by several nature reserves, such as Bwabwata, Mudumu, Lizauli, West Caprivi Game Park, Mahango Game Reserve, and Mamili National Park; animals travel freely across the unmarked border with Botswana, where the Chobe National Park lies. The strip is also a prime bird-watching area, with almost 70 percent of bird species found in Namibia being recorded here. Katima Mulilo is the largest city, with other notable towns including Choi, Chinchimane, Bukalo, Sibinda, and Impaliola. Binomial name Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797) The African Savannah Elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the best-known and larger of the two African elephants. ... Various species of deer are commonly seen wildlife across the Americas and Eurasia. ... A nature reserve is an area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research. ... Birding or birdwatching is a hobby concerned with the observation and study of birds (the study proper is termed American origin; birdwatching is (or more correctly, was) the commonly-used word in Great Britain and Ireland and by non-birders in the United States. ...

In addition to the Zambezi River, the strip also holds the Cuando and Kwando River, which marks the border with Botswana. Tributaries of the river here go by different names, including the Linyata and the Chobe. The province's far eastern is where the Cuando meets the Zambezi. A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ...

History and people

Caprivi was named after German Chancellor Leo von Caprivi, who negotiated the land in an 1890 exchange with the United Kingdom. Von Caprivi arranged for Caprivi to be annexed to German South-West Africa in order to give Germany access to the Zambezi River as part of the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty. The head of government in Germany has traditionally been called Kanzler ( Chancellor). ... Count Leo von Caprivi (February 24, 1831–February 6, 1899) was a German officer and statesman, who succeeded Otto von Bismarck as Chancellor of Germany, serving between 1890 and 1894. ... 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Flag of German South West Africa German South-West Africa (German: Deutsch-S dwestafrika or DSWA) was a colony of Germany from 1884 to 1915, when it was taken over by South Africa and administered as South-West Africa, later becoming Namibia. ... Zambezi River in North Western Zambia The Zambezi (also spelled Zambesi) is a river in Southern Africa. ... The Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty (German: Helgoland-Sansibar-Vertrag) was an 1890 agreement between Great Britain and Imperial Germany concerning territorial division of southwest Africa. ...

About 80,000 people live in Caprivi, about four percent of Namibia's population. About 17,000 are part of the Lozi ethnic group of 556,000 people, who also live in western Zambia, northwest Zimbabwe (70,000), and northern Botswana (14,000).

There have been ethnic tension between the Lozis and the Ovambos, the majority ethnic group of northern Namibia. This has led to past conflict, including the 1994 formation of the Caprivi Liberation Front, which pushes for Caprivi-Lozi self-rule. Ethnic tension is a term referring to tension between different ethnic groups. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... An autonomous region or autonomous district is a subnational region with special powers of self-rule. ...

The region comprises six constituencies: Kongola, Linyanti, Sibinda, Katima Mulilo Urban, Katima Mulilo Rural, and Kabe. Each of the 12 regions in Namibia is further subdivided into a constituency. ... Categories: Africa geography stubs | Constituencies of Namibia ... Categories: Africa geography stubs | Constituencies of Namibia ... Categories: Africa geography stubs | Constituencies of Namibia ... Categories: Africa geography stubs | Constituencies of Namibia ... Categories: Africa geography stubs | Constituencies of Namibia ... Categories: Africa geography stubs | Constituencies of Namibia ...