Grootfontein
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Place details
- Locality
- Grootfontein
- Region
- Otjozondjupa Region
- Country
- Namibia
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Grootfontein
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.motto
- Fons Vitæ
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Grootfontein grass.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_shield
- Grootfontein COA.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 200px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Namibia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Namibia
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- yes
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
Key dates
- Inception
- 1885
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Namibia
- Located in
- Otjozondjupa Region
- Population
- +26839
- Elevation
- +1460
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Capital of
- Upingtonia
- Official website
- www.grootfonteinmun.com.na
- Image
- Grootfontein grass.jpg
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() is a city with 26,839 inhabitants in the Otjozondjupa Region of central Namibia. It is one of the three towns in the Otavi Triangle, situated on the B8 national road that leads from Otavi to the Caprivi Strip.
==Overview== The place was known to the Herero under the name Otjivanda. In 1885, 40 Boer families from the north-west of South Africa settled at Grootfontein. Part of the Dorsland trekkers, they were heading towards Angola. When that territory fell under Portuguese control, they turned back and established the Republic of Upingtonia at Grootfontein. Abandoned by 1887, it became the headquarters of the South West Africa Company in 1893.