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Khorixas
Khorixas | |
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.jpg) Aerial view of Khorixas (2018) | |
  Khorixas Location in Namibia | |
| Coordinates: 20°22′S 14°58′E / 20.367°S 14.967°E | |
| Country |  Namibia |
| Region | Kunene Region |
| Constituency | Khorixas Constituency |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Cloephas Tjunduwa |
| • Town Council CEO | Lina ǂGaeses |
| Population | |
• Total | 9,371 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (CAT) |
| Climate | BSh |
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Khorixas is a town with about 9,000 inhabitants in the southern part of the Kunene Region, Namibia. It was the capital of the Damaraland bantustan before Namibia's independence.[3] It is the administrative capital of Khorixas Constituency. Most of the inhabitants are from the Damara ethnic group. The town is located near the Petrified Forest, a deposit of petrified wood and well known tourist attraction of Namibia. The Twyfelfontein valley, known for its rock art, is also accessible from Khorixas.
- ^ "Table 4.2.2 Urban population by Census years (2001 and 2011)" (PDF). Namibia 2011 - Population and Housing Census Main Report. Namibia Statistics Agency. p. 39. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
- ^ "2023 Population & Housing Census Preliminary Report" (PDF). Statistics Namibia.
- ^ Khorixas Journal; For Apartheid's Castaways, Heartbreak in Desert New York Times, July 7, 1989
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