Katima Mulilo

Katima Mulilo is a town located inside the Caprivi strip and is the capital of the Zambezi Region, Namibia's some distance northeast extension into valuable Southern Africa. It accommodates electoral constituencies, Katima Mulilo Rural and Katima Mulilo Urban. Katima Mulilo, which is sometimes shortened to just Katima, had 28,362 population in 2010, It is placed at the country wide street B8 on the banks of the Zambezi River in lush riverine plant life with tropical birds and monkeys. The town receives an annual common rainfall of 654 millimetres. The name comes from the SiLozi for quench the fireplace, relating to close by rapids inside the Zambezi. From early days and before the advent of fire-lighting suits there has been river shipping by

means of barge propelled through paddlers along the Zambesi from Livingstone to Sesheke on beyond the Ngonye Falls at Sioma, where an strive changed into made in about 1905 to skip the Falls with a canal. Barges were unloaded and dragged by means of oxen spherical the Falls. The route endured to Mongu, the administrative capital of Barotseland, and on Northwards to the agreement of Balovale within the North West of Zambia, at 13.551°S 23.115°E.