Caprivi Strip Hotels

Introducing Caprivi Strip

The Caprivi Strip also known as the Okavango Strip is a narrow protrusion of Namibia eastwards about 450 km.  The  Caprivi Strip in Namibia is located between Botswana on the south, Angola and Zambia to the north, and the Okavango Region to the west.   The Caprivi Strip  is bordered by the Okavango river, Kwando river, Chobe river and Zambezi river. Caprivi's largest settlement is the town of Katima Mulilo.  The Caprivi strip is administratively divided between the eastern Caprivi Region and the western Okavango Region.

Inhabitants of the Caprivi Strip speak a number of African languages.  Most of the languages spoken in this region of Namibia are Bantu  although there is also at least one language in the northwest of the strip which is a Khoisan language: Hukwe. The Bantu languages include Yeyi, Mbukushu, Gciriku, Fwe, Totela, and Subiya.  A majority in the Caprivi Strip, especially in the capital town of Katima Mulilo, speak Lozi as a lingua franca. Many people living here also speak some English and Afrikaans.

The region of the Caprivi Strip in Namibia is rich in wildlife and is home to precious mineral resources. Of particular interest to the government of Namibia is that the Caprivi Strip provides access to the Zambezi River and thereby a potential trading route to Africa's East Coast. However, the variances of the river level, the various rapids, the presence of the Victoria Falls downstream and the continued political uncertainty in this area make this use of the Caprivi Strip unlikely  Within Namibia the Caprivi Strip provides significant habitat for the critically endangered Wild African Dog, Lycaon pictus.