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A Huge Dam and a Desert Oasis
We continued south to Naute Dam, just outside of Keetmanshoop. Not everyone goes out of his way to see a dam, except maybe for some of the more famous dams in the world - the Three Gorges Dam in China, the Hoover Dam in the USA) and the Itaipu Dam along the borders of Brazil and Paraguay in South America. But this one, we heard is also quite significant. Built between 1970 and 1972, the Naute Dam is the third largest dam in Namibia and is predominantly used for irrigation,

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