Kuboes

Kuboes
Old mission church in Kuboes
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Coordinates: 28°26′49.2″S 16°59′20.76″E / 28.447000°S 16.9891000°E / -28.447000; 16.9891000Coordinates: 28°26′49.2″S 16°59′20.76″E / 28.447000°S 16.9891000°E / -28.447000; 16.9891000
Country	South Africa
Province	Northern Cape
District	Namakwa
Municipality	Richtersveld
Area[1]
• Total	0.88 km2 (0.34 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
• Total	948
• Density	1,100/km2 (2,800/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)[1]
• Black African	0.6%
• Coloured	95.5%
• Indian/Asian	0.2%
• Other	3.7%
First languages (2011)[1]
• Afrikaans	96.5%
• English	1.3%
• Other	2.2%
PO box	8292

Kuboes is a town in Richtersveld Local Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

Kuboes was one of the first permanent settlements on the Richtersveld. The town grew around a Rhenish mission set up by revered Johan Hein, who began to preach to the nomadic population of the surrounding areas in 1844. A church was built in 1893, and eventually the itinerant population decided to set up in Kuboes itself.^[2]

Kuboes is a centre of Nama culture, and the local school is claimed to be the only school in the world that teaches the Nama language.^[2]

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