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3 unusual facts about Katima Mulilo


Katima Mulilo

The regional office, the only brick-and-mortar building at Katima Mulilo at this time when the area consisted exclusively of pristine forests, was built under a giant Baobab situated near today's SWAPO Party regional offices.

Butterfly, Cowboy, Chotto and Mahohoma are registered informal settlements of Katima, further parts of town are named Nambweza, Soweto (SOuth–WEstern TOwnships, a reminiscence of the famous suburb of Johannesburg), New Look, Mabuluma, Lyambai, Bebi, Greenwell Matongo, Macaravan East and West, and NHE (from National Housing Enterprises, a governmental low-cost housing company that drew development here).

Katima Mulilo Bridge

The Katima Mulilo Bridge (also known as Bridge 508 in the Namibian Bridge Register) carries the TransCaprivi Highway over the Zambezi River between Katima Mulilo, Namibia and Sesheke, Zambia.



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