Shambyu

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Shambyu on Okavango (2019)
view in northeast direction

Shambyu is a settlement in the constituency of Mashare , Kavango-East region in northeastern Namibia . With the surrounding settlements of Nayita, Utokota and Gove, Shambyu has a population of around 21,000. The village is located on the south bank of the Okavango , above a fertile lowland, around 30 kilometers east of the city of Rundu .

history

Shambyu was founded in 1930 as a Roman Catholic mission station and named after the Shambyu tribe, the Kavango ethnic group . The residence of Shambyu Kings initially located in Uvungu-Vungu ( 17 ° 54 '  S , 19 ° 50'  O ) and now in Kayengona ( 17 ° 53 '  S , 19 ° 53'  O ). In the 1960s, the Roman Catholic Church in Namibia also opened a hospital and a youth home. In 1984 the foundation stone for the Kavango Museum was laid in Shambyu by hompa Maria Mwengere .

Web links

• Catholic Parish and Mission Shambyu ( Memento of June 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• Pictures from Shambyu ( Memento from June 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) by the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History 1930–1933. Klaus Dierks. Retrieved August 9, 2015

Coordinates: 17 ° 54 ′  S , 20 ° 1 ′  E