Nakop

Nakop lies in the dry country north of the Orange River, where the southern Kalahari meets the plains of Namaqualand. The Orange flows west through an arid landscape towards the Atlantic, separating the lands known as Great and Little Namaqualand. Nama pastoral communities lived across the southern interior, where the courses of seasonal rivers and scattered grazing shaped the movement of their herds. From the late eighteenth century, Oorlam groups moving north from the Cape entered Nama country.