Lake Oponona
Lake Oponona is a natural lake in the Uuvudhiya Constituency in the Oshana Region of northern Namibia. It is situated about 70 kilometres from Etosha Pan and is the largest lake in the Cuvelai Basin.
- Lake (intermittent)
- …has a surface elevation of 1,200 metres (3,937 feet)
- …is also known as “Lake Oponono”
- Description: lake in Namibia
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
-18.0545° or 18° 3′ 16″ south
Longitude
15.801° or 15° 48′ 4″ east
Open location code
5FHQWRW2+59
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=lake
OpenStreetMap attribute
intermittent=yes
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Fulah to Welsh—“Lake Oponona” goes by many names.
- Fulah: “Laku Oponona”
- German: “Oponono-See”
- Hausa: “Tafkin Oponona”
- Igbo: “Ọdọ Mmiri Oponona”
- Japanese: “オポノノ湖”
- Slovenian: “Oponona”
- Tswana: “Letsha la Oponona”
- Welsh: “Llyn Oponona”
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