Okavango River
The Okavango River is a river in southwestern Africa. It is known by this name in Botswana, as Cubango in Angola, and Kavango in Namibia. It is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa, running southeastward for 1,600 km.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Stream
- Description: river in southwestern Africa
- Also known as: “Fleuve Okavango”, “Kavango”, “Kavangojoki”, “Kubangas”, “Kubango-Okawango”, “Okava-Ongo”, “Okavango ibaia”, “Okavango jõgi”, “Okavangoelven”, “Okavangofloden”, “Okovanggo”, “Okovanggo River”, “Okovango”, “Okovango River”, “Rio Kubango”, “Rio Okavango”, “Rivero Okavango”, “Rzeka Okawango”, “Кубанга”, “Кубанго”, “أوكافانغو”, “オカバンゴ川”, and “奥卡万高河”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Seronga.
Seronga
Village
Seronga is a village in North-West District, Botswana. Seronga is situated 8 km north of Okavango River.
Okavango River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Angola, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-18.88333° or 18° 53′ south
Longitude
22.4° or 22° 24′ east
Elevation
978 metres (3,209 feet)
Open location code
5GH44C82+M2
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Okavango River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Okavangorivier”
- Arabic: “نهر أوكافانغو”
- Armenian: “Օկավանգո”
- Arpitan: “Okavango”
- Asturian: “Ríu Okavango”
- Azerbaijani: “Okavanqo çayı”
- Basque: “Okavango”
- Belarusian: “Акаванга”
- Bosnian: “Okavango”
- Breton: “Okavango”
- Bulgarian: “Окаванго”
- Catalan: “Okavango”
- Catalan: “riu Okavango”
- Cebuano: “Rio Cubango (suba sa Namibya)”
- Cebuano: “Rio Cubango”
- Chinese: “奥卡万戈河”
- Chinese: “奧卡萬戈河”
- Chuvash: “Окаванго”
- Croatian: “Okavango”
- Czech: “Okavango”
- Danish: “Okavango”
- Dutch: “Okavango”
- Esperanto: “Okavango”
- Estonian: “Okavango”
- Finnish: “Okavango”
- French: “Okavango”
- Galician: “Río Okavango”
- Georgian: “ოკავანგო”
- German: “Okavango”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Okavango River”
- Greek: “Οκαβάνγκο”
- Hausa: “Kogin Okavango”
- Hebrew: “אוקבנגו”
- Hebrew: “נהר האוקבנגו”
- Hindi: “ओकावंगो नदी”
- Hungarian: “Okavango”
- Icelandic: “Okavangofljót”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Okavango”
- Irish: “Abhainn Okavango”
- Italian: “Okavango”
- Japanese: “オカヴァンゴ川”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Cubango”
- Korean: “오카방고강”
- Kotava: “Okavango (kuksa)”
- Kotava: “Okavango”
- Latin: “Cubango”
- Latvian: “Okavango”
- Lithuanian: “Okavangas”
- Macedonian: “Окаванго”
- Malayalam: “ഒക്കവാങ്കോ നദി”
- Mingrelian: “ოკავანგო (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “ოკავანგო”
- Northern Frisian: “Okavango”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Okavango”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Okavango”
- Norwegian: “Okavango”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Okavango”
- Persian: “رود اوکاوانگو”
- Polish: “Okawango”
- Portuguese: “Rio Cubango”
- Romanian: “Okavango”
- Russian: “Окаванго”
- Serbian: “Okavango”
- Serbian: “Окаванго”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Okavango”
- Slovak: “Okavango”
- Slovenian: “Okavango”
- Somali: “Webiga Okavango”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوکاوانقو چایی”
- Spanish: “Okavango”
- Swahili: “Okavango”
- Swedish: “Okavango”
- Tamil: “ஒக்கவாங்கோ ஆறு”
- Telugu: “ఒకవాంగో నది”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำโอกาวางโก”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Okavango”
- Turkish: “Okavango Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Окаванго”
- Ukrainian: “Окаванґо”
- Uzbek: “Kubango”
- Venetian: “Fiume Okavango”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Okavango”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Okavango”
- Welsh: “Afon Okavango”
- Western Frisian: “Okavango”
- Wu Chinese: “奥卡万戈河”
- Yakut: “Окаванго”
- Yue Chinese: “奧卡萬戈河”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Ikwaka and Salidiro.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Seronga.
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Worth a closer look: Luanda and Cabinda.
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