The Bushveld area has been demarcated by the World Wildlife Fund as part of the Angolan Mopane woodlands ecoregion, which extends north across the Cunene River into neighbouring Angola.

Several rivers and streams run through the Namib, although all of the rivers south of the Cunene River and north of the Orange River are ephemeral and rarely or never reach the ocean.

The bands living a nomadic or seminomadic life in Cuando Cubango Province ( and occasionally reaching as far east as the upper Cunene River ) differed physically and linguistically from their sedentary Bantu-speaking neighbors.

The Cunene River gave its name to the province.

Cunene lies north of the Cunene River, which forms the border between Angola and Namibia.

Cunene River

The macroinvertebrates of the Cunene River from the Ruacana Falls to the river mouth and assessment of the conservation status of the river.

* Map of the Cunene River basin at Water Resources eAtlas

The Nile crocodile's current range of distribution extends from the Senegal River, Lake Chad, Wadai and the Sudan to the Cunene and the Okavango Delta.

Since he did not manage to cross the Cunene River he was forced to turn back.

Several major rivers flow originate from the plateau such as the Cunene River, the Kuanza River, the Kwango River, the Zambezi River.

# REDirect Cunene River

# REDIRECT Cunene River

The Namibian government has proposed building the Epupa Dam, a controversial hydroelectric dam on the Cunene.

It is found south of the Zambezi and Cunene rivers.

To the north and north-east it is bordered with Moxico Province, and in the west-the provinces of Huila and Cunene.

Cunene is a province of Angola.

Cunene is traversed by the northwesterly line of equal latitude and longitude.

Cahama is a city of Cunene Province, Angola.

* Northern! Xung: Southern Angola, around the Cunene, Cubango, Cuito, and Cuando rivers, but with many refugees now in Namibia:

In response, the Cape Parliament appointed a special Commission under W. C. Palgrave, to travel to the territory between the Orange and Cunene rivers and to liaise with these leaders regarding accession to the Cape.

In the north, Omusati borders the Cunene Province of Angola.

In the north, Ohangwena borders Angola: the Cunene Province, except for a small border with Cuando Cubango Province in the far northeast.

*" Cunene " at pt. wiki, 16 / 09 / 2011

The Ovambo or Ambo people ( endonyms Aawambo, Ovawambo ) consist of a number of kindred ethnic groups which inhabit Ovamboland in northern Namibia as well as the Southernmost Angolan province Cunene.

Medical treatment of the seriously wounded as well as the repair of equipment and the assembly of newly trained insurgents on their way to bases in the East and West Cunene Provinces all took place in Cassinga.

Battle Groups Alpha and Bravo rendezvoused in the Cunene Province near Katwitwi.

** Cunene horse mackerel, Trachurus trecae.

* 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.

In 1744 a Jesuit priest named Father Roman, while ascending the Orinoco River, met some Portuguese slave-traders from the settlements on the Rio Negro.

Portuguese traders who arrived in the 15th century named the country after the Portuguese word gabão, a coat with sleeve and hood resembling the shape of the Komo River estuary.

Portugal lost part of Guinea to French West Africa, including the center of earlier Portuguese commercial interest, the Casamance River region.

During the 16th century the Portuguese were able to establish permanent markets up the Zambezi River in an attempt to gain political and military control of Mutapa.

* 1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.

The Juruá River ( Portuguese Rio Juruá ; Spanish Río Yurúa ) is a southern affluent river of the Amazon River west of the Purus River, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland Amazon depression, and having all the characteristics of the Purus as regards curvature, sluggishness and general features of the low, half-flooded forest country it traverses.

During this period, no large scale territorial conquest was intended by the Portuguese ; only a few minor settlements were established in the immediate hinterland of Luanda, some on the last stretch of the Kwanza River.

The Portuguese under Jorge Álvares landed at Lintin Island in the Pearl River Delta of China in 1513 with a hired junk sailing from Portuguese Malacca.

" The River of Cuyari, called by the Portuguese Madeira or the Wood River, is formed by two great rivers, which join near its mouth.

Assisted by Omani Arabs, the indigenous coastal dwellers succeeded in driving the Portuguese from the area north of the Ruvuma River by the early 18th century.

The Portuguese colonisers were expelled from Cape Bojador and from Cap Blanc and the borders of Morocco were moved up to the Senegal River in the south-west and to the Niger River in the south-east ( see: Battle of Tondibi in 1591 ).

However, it is believed the Portuguese first settled in Zumbo, Mozambique, in 1720, which is just across the Luangwa River from Zambia, at the confluence with the Zambezi River.

* January 12 – The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta by the Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco, who had previously taken the city of São Luís in Maranhão from the French.

* August 15 – Portuguese merchant Fernao Pires de Andrade meets Ming Dynasty Chinese officials through an interpreter at the Pearl River estuary and lands at what is now in the jurisdiction of Hong Kong.

* May – Portuguese explorer Jorge Álvares lands on Lintin Island in the Pearl River estuary.

* July 6 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.

* The Portuguese erect the Fort of Sao Jorge de Mina ( Fort Elmina ) near the mouth of the River Benya on the Gold Coast.