Gumare

Gumare or Gomare is a rural village located in the North-West District of Botswana, near the Okavango Delta. The population of Gumare was 6,067 in 2001 census.Gumare is served by Gumare Airport.Four separate government institutions manage Ngamiland District: District Council; District Administration; Tribal Administration; Land Board. Maun serves as the administrative center of Ngamiland. Gumare is the only sub-district, which is referred to as Okavango Sub-district, and has its own set of administrative institutions. Okavango’s administrative boundary starts at Habu, including Qangwa and Xaixai up to Gudigwa. Its political boundary starts from Etsha 1 up to Gudigwa and this is different from education and agriculture. There are 27 villages in Okavango Sub-district.Okavango is really only one part of the remarkable Kalahari ecosystem. Okavango is set within a geographically unstable area of faults and regularly experiences land movements, tremors and quakes. Hence, its natural world with a landscape that is always changing and quite unpredictable. There are arid lands, swamps, channels, lagoons, grasslands, lakes and countless islands of various shape and size.