Springs of the Otavi Mountainland. Could they teach us something significant?
The work presented in this paper incorporates spring data for further conceptualizing the hydrogeology of northern Namibia’s so-called “Karst Area”, an area around the towns of Tsumeb, Otavi and Grootfontein. Also called the Otavi Mountainland, it can be described as a mountainous highland of parallel, east-west trending elongated valleys and ranges shaped by the underlying folded units of carbonate rocks of the Damara Supergroup. The karst aquifers are a supplementary source to the central areas of the country during drought.