ÇKaras Region
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ǁ Karas
Karas ( historically )
ǁ Karas [ Khi 1] ( Khoekhoegowab for quiver tree; often wrongly Karas! ), Until August 8, 2013 Karas is the southernmost, with the largest and one of the most sparsely populated of the 14 regions of Namibia. The Capital Region has Keetmanshoop.
- 3.1 Tourism
Geography
→ See also: Geography of Namibia
The ǁ Karas region extends over the whole south of Namibia and has a share in the three most prevalent landscape areas of Namibia. In the West ǁ Karas bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the subsequent coastal strip is occupied mainly by the restricted diamond area. The vast plains and plateaus of the desert-like containment area are broken by isolated hills and mountain ranges such as the Dikwillem and the Klinghardt Mountains. To ǁ Karas also most of the Penguin Islands, small coastal islands are offshore. East of the restricted area close to mountain ranges of the Great Escarpment on the coastal strip. In particular, the Tiras Mountains and the Huns Mountains form large mountain ranges. The Fish River Canyon in the Huns Mountains is the second largest canyon in the world and a National Monument in Namibia. The eastern half ǁ Karas ' is determined by the intra-African basin landscape of Southern Africa, where ǁ Karas has on its eastern border share of the Kalahari Desert. Exceptions are single mountain or island mountains like Brukkaros. The southeast of ǁ Karas is determined by the mountains of the Great Karas Mountains with the Schroffenstein, the highest peak of the region.
The Orange River forms the entire southern border of a natural border with the Republic of South Africa. ǁ Karas has an exceptional geology, of which also the extensive diamond and mineral extraction in Oranjemund and Rosh Pinah, the hot springs of Warmbad and | testify Ais | Ai-.
Regional Policy
- Dawid Boois ( Beersheba )
- Hilma Nicanor (Keetmanshoop city)
- Paul Ephraim ( Karasburg )
- Eliphaz Shikongo ( Oranjemund )
- January Scholtz ( Lüderitz)
- Jims Christiaan (Keetmanshoop country)
Administrative divisions
ǁ Karas is divided into seven constituencies with a total population of 69 677 inhabitants.
1 Beersheba with 9,195 inhabitants
- Village Beersheba
- Village Tse
- Helmeringhausen
- Goageb
- Village of Bethany
2 Karasburg with 14,693 inhabitants
- Community Karasburg
- Settlement Ariamsvlei
- Aussenkehr
- Settlement Grunau
- Settlement Noordoewer
- Warmbad settlement
3 constituency Keetmanshoop country with 6,349 inhabitants
4 constituency Keetmanshoop town with 14,945 inhabitants
- Community Keetmanshoop
5 Lüderitz constituency with 13,276 inhabitants and
- Town of Lüderitz
- Settlement from
6 Oranjemund with 5,451 inhabitants.
- Oranjemund
- Private City Rosh Pinah
- Ai -Ais
- Witputz
7 Karasburg - West
- Noordoewer
Economy
ǁ Karas has a well- developed infrastructure and a mixed economic construction. The port of Lüderitz is the center of fishing and boat building industry, Oranjemund the center of the diamond mining and the circles in the interior usually have a healthy small -scale agriculture.
There are smaller airports in Karasburg, Keetmanshoop, Lüderitz and Oranjemund, with Keetmanshoop also lies most centrally in the Namibian road network. By ǁ Karas run the national roads, and. It is planned to extend the railway between Lüderitz Lüderitz and Keetmanshoop especially for an improved freight. The railway line Windhoek - Keetmanshoop and Upington has Karasburg connection to the South African network of Spoornet.
Tourism
Other attractions in the region include the ghost town, Luderitz, the Fish River Canyon and the quiver tree forest and the Tsau - ǁ Khaeb ( restricted area ) National Park.