Ngoma Bridge

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Coordinates: 17 ° 55 ′ 17 ″  S , 24 ° 43 ′ 14 ″  E

Ngoma Bridge
use	Road bridge
Convicted	Chobe
place	Ngoma
construction	steel truss bridge
overall length	68 m
width	approx. 8 m
Number of openings	4th
Pillar spacing	17 m
location

The Ngomabrücke ( English Ngoma Bridge ) forms at Ngoma a border crossing between Namibia and Botswana . It connects the Namibian national road B8 with the A33 Botswana.

It crosses the Chobe , which runs as a small trickle close to the right, eastern bank when the tide is low. The border is accordingly close to the bank and runs in the middle of the bridge. The river, which is about 800 m wide at this point, looks like a wide grassland at this time. At high tide, the river bed is completely flooded. Therefore, on the Namibian side of the bridge, there is a dam across the flat floodplain, which is interrupted about halfway by another bridge.

The 68 m long bridge has four openings, each of which is crossed with a low steel truss construction.

The current bridge and the adjoining road were built on behalf of the Namibian government with funds from KfW in the 2000s.

Ngoma Bridge and Chobe River (2019)

Web links

Commons : Ngoma (Namibia)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Aerial view of the bridge from the Namibian side

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Google Earth, picture taken: 11/20/2014
2. ^ Klaus Dierks : Chronology of Namibian History. Entries for 1998. There are also three good photos of the bridge to be seen.