Cunene River

The Cunene or Kunene is a river in . It flows from the highlands southwards to the border with . It then flows in a westerly direction along the border until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in Southern Africa
  • Also known as: Kunene River” and “Nourse River

Cunene River

Latitude
-17.25401° or 17° 15′ 14″ south
Longitude
11.75752° or 11° 45′ 27″ east
Open location code
5FJHPQW5+92
Geo­Names ID
3355854
Wiki­data ID
Q320649
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Cunene River” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Kunenerivier
  • Arabic: نهر كونين
  • Armenian: Կունենե
  • Asturian: Ríu Cunene
  • Belarusian: Куненэ
  • Belarusian: Кунэнэ
  • Belarusian: Рака Куненэ
  • Bulgarian: Кунене
  • Burmese: ကုနီနီမြစ်
  • Catalan: Riu Cunene
  • Cebuano: Rio Cunene
  • Chinese: 库内纳河
  • Chinese: 庫內河
  • Chinese: 庫內納河
  • Chuvash: Кунене
  • Croatian: Cunene
  • Czech: Cunene
  • Czech: Kunene
  • Danish: Cunenefloden
  • Dutch: Kunene
  • Esperanto: Kunene
  • Estonian: Cunene jõgi
  • Finnish: Kunenejoki
  • Fon: Kunene (tɔsisa)
  • Fon: Kunene
  • French: Cunene
  • French: Kunene
  • Galician: Cunene
  • Galician: Río Cunene
  • Galician: Río Kunene
  • Georgian: კუნენე
  • German: Kunene-Fluss
  • German: Kunene
  • Greek: Ποταμός Κουνένε
  • Hindi: कुनेने नदी
  • Hungarian: Cunene
  • Indonesian: Sungai Kunene
  • Irish: Abhainn Cunene
  • Italian: Cunene
  • Italian: Kunene
  • Japanese: クネネ川
  • Korean: 쿠네네강
  • Kotava: Kunene (kuksa)
  • Kotava: Kunene
  • Latin: Cunene
  • Lithuanian: Kunenė
  • Luxembourgish: Kunene
  • Malayalam: കുനെൻ നദി
  • Mingrelian: კუნენე (წყარმალუ)
  • Mingrelian: კუნენე
  • Nauru: Kunene
  • Northern Frisian: Cunene Struum
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Cunene
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Kunene
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Cunene
  • Norwegian: Cunene
  • Persian: رودخانه کونن
  • Polish: Kunene
  • Portuguese: Rio Cunene
  • Romanian: Râul Cunene
  • Romanian: Râul Kunene
  • Russian: Кунене
  • Serbo-Croatian: Cunene
  • Slovenian: Cunene
  • Slovenian: Kunene
  • Spanish: Rio Cunene
  • Spanish: Río Cunene
  • Spanish: Rio Kunene
  • Spanish: Río Kunene
  • Swahili: Kunene
  • Swedish: Cunene
  • Thai: แม่น้ำกูเนเน
  • Ukrainian: Кунене
  • Venetian: Fiume Cunene
  • Welsh: Afon Cunene

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