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Coordinates: 17°18′S 15°51′E / 17.300°S 15.850°E

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Namacunde Namakunde
Municipality and town
Namacunde Location in Angola
Coordinates: 17°18′S 15°51′E / 17.300°S 15.850°E / -17.300; 15.850
Country	Angola
Province	Cunene Province
Area
• Total	4,132 sq mi (10,701 km²)
Elevation	3,640 ft (1,110 m)
Population (2014 Census)^[1]
• Total	142,047
Time zone	UTC+1 (WAT)
Climate	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.^[1]

History as a mission station

Namacunde was a mission station of the Rhenish Mission Society in Oukwanyama in southern Angola, located 25 kilometres (16 mi) 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.^[3]

Transport

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

References

^ ^a ^b "Resultados Definitivos Recenseamento Geral da População e Habitação – 2014 Província do Cunene" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estatística, República de Angola. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ "City councils of Angola". Statoids. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
^ Peltola, Matti (1958). 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’]. Helsinki: The Finnish Missionary Society. pp. 173, 180, 182, 196.

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v t e Cunene Province
Capital: Ondjiva
Cahama	Cahama Otchinjau
Cuanhama	Cafima-Nehone Evale Môngua Ondjiva Tchimporo-Yonde
Curoca	Chitado Oncócua
Cuvelai	Calonga Cubati Mukolongodjo (Omukologonjo) Mupa (Omunda)
Namacunde	Chiede Namacunde
Ombadja	Humbe Mucope Naulila Ombala-Yo-Mungo Xangongo

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