Omatako (river)

Omatako
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location	Otjozondjupa / Kavango-East , Namibia
River system	Okavango omatako
Drain over	Okavango  → Okavango Delta
source	Omatakoberge 21 ° 7 ′ 44 ″  S , 16 ° 46 ′ 7 ″  O
muzzle	Shimeto coordinates: 17 ° 57 '8 "  S , 20 ° 28' 19"  O 17 ° 57 '8 "  S , 20 ° 28' 19"  O
Left tributaries	Ohakane Ombatjipure Small Omatako Omambonde
Navigable	No
Rivier (dry river)

The Omatako , also Omuramba-Omatako , is a rivier (Omuramba; dry river ) in the central north and northeast of Namibia . It rises south of Otjiwarongo in the Omatakobergen in the Otjozondjupa region and flows into the Okavango east of Rundu in the Kavango-East region near Shimeto ( constituency Ndonga Linena ) . It is dammed about 47 east of the Omatako Mountains by the Omatako Dam .

The Omatako takes its name from the Omatakobergen. "Omatako" means as much as " buttocks " in the Bantu language Otjiherero .

He last ran water in 2016.

Web links

• Integrated Water Resources Management - Okavango-Omatako River Basin (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerald Cubitt, Peter Joyce: This is Namibia ( en ). Struik, 1999, ISBN 9781859742815 , p. 16. Archived from the original on August 4, 2018.
2. ↑ Omuramba-Omatako (Rivier) is running. General newspaper; in: Namibiana.de , January 21, 2016.