The Cunene River (sometimes transliterated Kunene) is a river in Southwest Africa. It flows from the Angola highlands south to the border with Namibia. It then flows west along the border until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of the few perennial rivers in the region. It is about 700 mi (1126 km) long. The Epupa Falls lie on the river. This bridge across the Danube River links Hungary with Slovakia. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... A perennial stream or perennial river is a stream or river that flows continuously all year round. ... The Epupa Falls lie on the Kunene River, on the border of Angola and Namibia. ...
The Epupa dam
The Namibian government has proposed building the Epupa Dam, a controversial hydroelectric dam on the Cunene. The dam may threaten the local ecosystem and therefore the economic basis of the local Himba ethnic group. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... An ecosystem, a contraction of ecological and system, refers to the collection of biotic and abiotic components and processes that comprise and govern the behavior of some defined subset of the biosphere. ... Group of Himba women near Opuwo, Namibia The Himba are an ethnic group of about 12,000 people, living in northern Namibia, in the Kunene region (formerly Kaokoland). ...
External links
Map of the Cunene River basin at Water Resources eAtlas
Five days of paddling down the CuneneRiver is the main focus of this expedition, but to get to this remote river in far northern Namibia, we travelled from Windhoek through Etosha National Park.
The CuneneRiver forms a section of border between Namibia to the south and Angola in the north, Our first sight of the Cunene was at Ruacana, just below Ruacana falls, which dribbled rather than cascaded, because of a series of man-made weirs and walls that stem the water.
The CuneneRiver rafting trip is not well suited to complete novices, although sometimes the less you know, the better you cope.
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