Kharooan

In the dry country of southern Namibia, a spring beside the Aiab River gave its name to ǂNūǂgoaes, meaning black mud. The place lay in the country of the Nama, whose communities kept livestock in a landscape of scattered water and grazing. The Kharoǃoan were one of the Nama groups associated with this part of the interior. From the end of the eighteenth century, Oorlam groups moving north from the Cape entered the lands of the southern Nama.

The later city of Keetmanshoop lies here.