Grootfontein

Grootfontein is a city of 23,793 population inside the Otjozondjupa Region of primary Namibia. It is one of the three towns inside the Otavi Triangle, located on the B8 country wide avenue that leads from Otavi to the Caprivi Strip. The place turned into recognised to the Herero underneath the call Otjivanda. In 1885, forty Boer families from the north-west of South Africa settled at Grootfontein. Part of the Dorsland trekkers, they have been heading towards Angola. When that territory fell underneath Portuguese manage, they became back and mounted the Republic of Upingtonia at Grootfontein.

Abandoned by 1887, it became the headquarters of the South West Africa Company in 1893. In 1908 the Roman Catholic church set up a venture in Grootfontein as the basis in their sooner or later a success try and establish missions in Kavango. Like all the cities within the Otavi Triangle, Grootfontein may be very green in summer however drier in iciness. In spring, jacaranda and flamboyant timber bloom in great quantity. The metropolis has an vintage German Schutztruppe castle from the 12 months 1896, which these days houses a museum that expounds at the nearby records.