Oshivelo

settlement

Oshivelo

Details

Details

Oshivelo with the B1 national road , view in east direction

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Basic data

Population
Area
Population Density

> 2700 (as of 2001)

State
Region
Constituency

Namibia
Oshikoto
Guinas

Establishment date

License plate
phone code

67

Website

Political data

Mayor :

Chief Executive Officer :

Last election: 2015

Next election: 2020

City administration address:

Geographical data

Geographical coordinates : 18/37/00 / S, 17/10/00 / E

Height :

Oshivelo is a settlement at about 1092 m in the constituency of Guinas in the Oshikoto region in northern Namibia . The settlement is mainly inhabited by the Haiǁom . They are said to have already made up 2700 inhabitants in 2001.

Infrastructure

Sam Nujoma train station in Oshivelo

The place is on the B1 national road and has had a train station on the Tsumeb – Oshikango railway since 2004 . This was inaugurated by the former President of Namibia Sam Nujoma and bears his name.

The main residential area Cemetery location ( German cemetery area ), also known as Donkerhoek ( dark corner ), is located to the south of the village. It has three drinking water stations that can be used by the local residents free of charge. There is no electricity.

Oshivelo has a clinic and combined elementary and secondary school. There are at least four active churches and 50 shebeens as well as a gas station, police station and a branch of the agricultural utility Agra .

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↑ Note: This article contains characters from the alphabet of the Khoisan languages spoken in southern Africa . The display contains characters of the click letters ǀ , ǁ , ǂ and ǃ . For more information on the pronunciation of long or nasal vowels or certain clicks , see e.g. B. under Khoekhoegowab .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Ute Dieckmann, Maarit Thiem, Erik Dirkx et al .: “Scraping the Pot” - San in Namibia Two Decades After Independence . Ed .: Land, Environment and Development Project of the Legal Assistance Center and Desert Research Foundation of Namibia. Windhoek 2014, ISBN 978-99945-61-52-0 , pp. 187 (English, download [PDF; 27.0 MB ; accessed on August 19, 2020]).
↑ Development projects of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport , accessed on February 25, 2011.

-18.616666666667 17.166666666667Coordinates: 18 ° 37 ′ S , 17 ° 10 ′ E

[Khivorlage-1] Note: This article contains characters from the alphabet of the Khoisan languages spoken in southern Africa . The display contains characters of the click letters ǀ , ǁ , ǂ and ǃ . For more information on the pronunciation of long or nasal vowels or certain clicks , see e.g. B. under Khoekhoegowab .

[dieckmann-2] Ute Dieckmann, Maarit Thiem, Erik Dirkx et al .: “Scraping the Pot” - San in Namibia Two Decades After Independence . Ed .: Land, Environment and Development Project of the Legal Assistance Center and Desert Research Foundation of Namibia. Windhoek 2014, ISBN 978-99945-61-52-0 , pp. 187 (English, download [PDF; 27.0 MB ; accessed on August 19, 2020]).

[3] Development projects of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport , accessed on February 25, 2011.