Mariental
Mariental is a town of Namibia of 12 thousand inhabitants and the administrative chief town of the area of Hardap, with dominant nama, located at 260 km in the south of Windhoek, the capital, and as much in the north of Keetmanshoop.
The city was baptized in the name of Maria Brandt, the wife of the first colonist of the area, Hermann Brandt.
The area of Mariental is tourist with its farms of Autruche S and the dam Hardap . Built in 1962, length 862 m, draining water Fish To rivet it, this stopping made it possible to irrigate the grounds of this not very rainy area and to develop the culture of melon S, of Vigne S, Luzerne and Maïs. It is incorporated in a vast park of leisure around a been next to artificial lake of an animalist reserve. The small village nama of Gibeon to 65 km in the south of Mariental shelters the old residence of the chief Hendrik Witbooi, which had directed the rebellion herero in 1904 against the German troops.
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