Cunene

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Cu·ne·ne

also Ku·ne·ne  (ko͞o-nā′nə)
A river rising in west-central Angola and flowing about 1,125 km (700 mi) south and west to the Atlantic Ocean. It forms the Angola-Namibia border in its lower course.
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Before it veers offshore, the atmospheric lowlevel coastal jet has a quasi-permanent northern maximum located at about 17.5[degrees]S that coincides with the Cunene upwelling cell (Lutjeharms and Meeuwis 1987; Patricola and Chang 2017).
The provinces of Luanda, Benguela, and the border provinces of Cunene, Namibe, Zaire, Lunda Norte, and Uige are the most high-threat areas for trafficking activities.
It is a xeric species of the savanna woodland forests, being found mostly on heavy-textured soils in flat valley bottoms such as Zambezi, Okavango, Limpopo, Cunene, Shire, and Luangwa [3, 4].
In Angola, the areas most affected by drought are the southern provinces of Cunene and Huila.
and Emidio, T.L.: 2005, Kaolin deposits from the northern sector of Cunene Anorthosite Complex (Southern Angola).
The Central and Southern Systems are linked to the Catumbela and Cunene River basins, respectively.
Tire Matala dam, on the Cunene River, for example, is the main source of electricity in Southwest Angola.
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