Arandis

This article covers the city. For the constituency, see Arandis (constituency) .

city Arandis
Details Details
Arandis aerial photo (2018)
motto	Forward We Survive (forward we survive)
Basic data
Population Area Population Density	5170 (2011 census) 33.4 km² 154.8 inhabitants / km²
State Region Constituency	Namibia Erongo Arandis
Establishment date	1975 1992 as a city
License plate phone code	P. 63
Website	www.arandistown.com

Arandis is a city in the same constituency Arandis in the region Erongo in Namibia . It has 5170 inhabitants on an area of ​​33.4 square kilometers . Arandis lies in a plain between the Rössing Mountains in the southwest and the Klan Mountains in the east, around 60 kilometers northeast of Swakopmund .

There are good transport connections to Swakopmund and Windhoek via the B2 national road . In addition to Arandis Airport, there is a police station, a church, a hospital, the Namibian Institute of Mining & Technology (headquarters), various small businesses, a gas station and several shops. Arandis is on the Kranzberg – Walvis Bay railway line .

climate

The climate classification of Köppen and Geiger , according to the climate in Arandis type BWh - so it prevails desert climate with year-round rainfall barely. The annual average temperature is 19.0 ° C. Over the year, the rainfall adds up to 44 mm. The months with the lowest precipitation (0 mm) are June, July and September, the month with the most precipitation is March (15 mm). In the wettest month of March, an average of 15 mm more precipitation falls than in the driest months of June, July and September. On an annual average, March is the warmest with an average temperature of 21.8 ° C, while July and August are the coldest months with temperatures averaging 16.0 ° C. This means that the warmest month is on average 5.8 ° C warmer than the coldest months.

Arandis
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     8th   28 15th     9   28 15th     15th   29 15th     4th   28 13     1   26th 10     0   25th 9     0   24 8th     1   24 8th     0   25th 9     1   26th 11     3   28 12     2   28 13 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: climate-data.org. Retrieved on May 8, 2018 (German).  Humidity, rainy days: weatherbase.com

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Arandis Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 28.2 28.2 28.5 27.7 26.0 24.6 24.0 24.3 25.3 26.3 27.8 28.2 O 26.6 Min. Temperature (° C) 14.5 15.2 15.2 12.7 10.2 9.3 8.1 7.7 9.0 10.5 12.3 13.1 O 11.5 Temperature (° C) 21.3 21.7 21.8 20.2 18.1 16.9 16.0 16.0 17.1 18.4 20.0 20.6 O 19th Precipitation ( mm ) 8th 9 15th 4th 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 2 Σ 44 Rainy days ( d ) 4.0 4.1 3.6 2.0 1.1 1.8 0.2 0.5 0.6 1.1 1.9 1.8 Σ 22.7 Humidity ( % ) 64.4 67.0 66.6 62.6 55.4 53.7 53.0 54.3 56.1 57.5 59.5 61.1 O 59.2 Source: climate-data.org. Retrieved on May 8, 2018 (German).  Humidity, rainy days: weatherbase.com

history

Uranium dump truck memorial in the center of Arandis

The town was built by Rössing Uranium Limited in 1972 for its employees in the Rössing mine , which is only 15 km away, and is a pure mining town . In 1992, Arandis was given to the Namibian state as a "gift" by the Rössing Group on the occasion of the country's independence two years earlier.

Arandis has had city status since 1994/1995.

The name "Arandis" goes back to the "Arandis station" of the Otavibahn , which was 60 km away from Swakopmund. In the mid-1920s a tin deposit was discovered in the marble about 35 km north of this train station, which was initially called "Annaberg" or, after its owner W. Stiepelmann, "Stiepelmann-Grube", but later called "Arandis Tin Mine". The deposit was worked by Paul Ramdohr , who from here u. a. described the minerals Arandisit and Nordenskiöldin . The city of Arandis lives on indirectly in the mineral name "Arandisit".

economy

Most of the city's working population is employed by Rössing. To this day, the city is economically completely dependent on the Rössing Group, which is the livelihood for almost every household in the city. Up until a few years ago there were no shopping facilities or gas stations in Arandis , so that Swakopmund, located on the coast, benefited indirectly and continuously from Arandis, as the residents of the place spent an estimated 90% of their freely disposable income in Swakopmund.

When the world market prices for uranium oxide fell drastically shortly after the turn of the millennium , the mine was initially announced to be closed for 2007. Because the uranium oxide price rose disproportionately again in the following years, the planned closure was discarded. Instead, the group invested a further US $ 112 million in order to be able to extract uranium oxide at Arandis at least until 2021.

By 2016 Arandis wants to become a self-sufficient city and thus operate more independently of Rössing. Until then, the economy should be diversified with the aim of creating jobs in industry (70%), education (20%) and tourism (5%).

Local politics

In the local elections in 2015 , the following official final result was determined.

Political party	be right	Share of votes	Seats
SWAPO	780	66.6%	5
UDF	295	25.2%	2
DTA	077	06.6%	0
RDP	020th	01.7%	0
All in all	1172	100%	7th

Facilities

education

Arandis has two state primary schools and one private secondary school. These and the Mathematics and Science Center as well as the Mining and Technology Institute are supported and maintained by Rössing.

• Arandis Primary School
• UB Dax Primary School
• Kolin Foundation Secondary School
• Maths and Science Center
• Namibia Institute of Mining and Technology

health

Arandis has a clinic. The construction of a university hospital is planned (as of May 2018).

Web links

Commons : Arandis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 Population and Housing Census, Erongo Regional Profile. ( Memento from September 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Namibia Statistics Agency , 2014, p. Ii
2. ↑ Namibia 2011 Population and Housing Census Preliminary Results. Namibia Statistics Agency, April 2012, accessed May 9, 2012
3. ↑ Arandis climate data - accessed on May 8, 2018
4. ↑ Rossing Foundation : Arandis Sustainable Development Brochure (Download) ( Memento from May 9, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), (English), PDF file, accessed on February 11, 2012.
5. ^ Timothy W. Gevers: A hydrothermal deposit of cassiterite near Arandis, South-West Africa . In: Transactions of the Geological Society South Africa . tape 32 , no. 1 , 1929, p. 165–170 ( the-eis.com [PDF; 410 kB ; accessed on May 8, 2018]).
6. ^ Paul Ramdohr: A tin deposit in marble near Arandis, German South West Africa . In: New Yearbook of Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, Treatises . 70th Supplement, Section A. Mineralogy and Petrography, 1935, p. 1-48 .
7. ↑ ^{a b} Mindat - Arandis Tin Mine, accessed May 8, 2018
8. ↑ ^{a b} Allgemeine Zeitung (Namibia, 2007) : Something is happening in Arandis , in the edition of November 19, 2007, viewed on February 11, 2012.
9. ↑ Local Authorities 2015. The Namibian, December 4, 2015, pp. 6ff
10. ↑ May 11, 2018 - Morning News. Hitradio Namibia, May 11, 2018.

Coordinates: 22 ° 25 ′  S , 14 ° 58 ′  E