Nyangana

Nyangana on the Okavango (2019)
view in north direction

Nyangana ( 1018  m ) is a settlement in the constituency of Ndiyona in the Kavango-East region in northeastern Namibia . With the surrounding settlements of Kangweru and Magongo, Nyangana has around 1000 inhabitants. Nyangana is located on the south bank of the Okavango , above a fertile lowland, around 80 kilometers east of the city of Rundu and 10 km west of the Angolan municipality of Diricu .

history

Nyangana was founded on May 21, 1909 by Joseph Gotthardt , who later became Vicar Apostolic of Windhoek , as the region's first Roman Catholic mission station and was named after the Gciriku King Thomas Nyangana (1879-1924). In the 1960s, the Roman Catholic Church in Namibia also founded a hospital and a youth home.

Web links

• Catholic Parish and Mission Nyangana

Individual evidence

1. ^ History. Klaus Dierks . Retrieved July 19, 2019.
2. ↑ Matti Peltola: Sata vuotta suomalaista lähetystyötä 1859-1959. II: Suomen Lähetysseuran Afrikan työn historia The Finnish Missionary Society, Helsinki 1958, pp. 216-218

Coordinates: 18 ° 0 ′  S , 20 ° 41 ′  E