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Keetmanshoop

Namibia
Someday we will visit Keetmanshoop or begin to dream about going there! However, for now its not on our radar. Let us know in the comments if you think that should change!

Keetmanshoop

Keetmanshoop is the capital of the ǁKaras region of southern Namibia. It's one of the main stopping points on the B1 between Windhoek and South Africa. Referred to in Namibia as Keetmans. At first, Keetmanshoop, may seem like not much more than a quick stopover. The main reason for stopping at all is to refill on gas and check your tires, but there is in fact much more to this town if you get the chance to discover it, either out of your own volition, or because your car breaks down.

Before the colonial era, the settlement was known as ǂNuǂgoaes or Swartmodder, both of which mean "Black Marsh" and indicated the presence of a spring in the area. The first white settler, Guilliam Visagie, arrived here in 1785. When in February 1850 the Kharoǃoan clan (Keetmanshoop Nama) split from the Red Nation, the main subtribe of the Nama people, they settled permanently here. In 1860 the Rhenish Missionary Society founded a mission there to christianise the local Nama. The first missionary, Johann Georg Schröder, arrived in Keetmanshoop on April 14, 1866, which is now marked as the founding date of Keetmanshoop. The mission station was named after the German trader and director of the Rhenish Missionary Society Johann Keetman who supported the mission financially. He never actually visited the place himself.

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Climate

Average temperatures

Jan

34.8°C19
Precipitation: 24 mm

Feb

34°C19.3
Precipitation: 42 mm

Mar

32.2°C17.8
Precipitation: 36 mm

Apr

28.8°C14.4
Precipitation: 15 mm

May

25°C10.4
Precipitation: 5 mm

Jun

21.7°C7
Precipitation: 2 mm

Jul

21.3°C6.4
Precipitation: 1 mm

Aug

23.5°C7.5
Precipitation: 1 mm

Sep

27.2°C10.7
Precipitation: 3 mm

Oct

30.1°C13.7
Precipitation: 6 mm

Nov

32.4°C15.7
Precipitation: 11 mm

Dec

34.5°C17.6
Precipitation: 13 mm