The Kavango people, also known as the vaKavango or haKavango, are a Bantu ethnic group that resides in the Kavango region of Northern Namibia on the Angolan border along the Kavango River, which is named after them.
They are mainly riverine living people, but about 20% reside in the dry inland. The river is pivotal to their survival and they grow crops on the narrow strip of fertile soil alongside it, graze their cattle on the flood plains, fish the river extensively and hunt the wild animals that live there.
