The Curoca is an intermittent river in

Namibe Province Namibe Province is a Provinces of Angola, province of Angola. Under Portuguese Angola, Portuguese rule it was the Moçâmedes District. It has an area of 57,091 km2 and had a 2014 census population of 495,326. The port and city of Namibe, Mo ...

, southern

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which has residual lagoons in dry seasons. It is one of only two rivers in

Iona National Park Iona National Park (Portuguese: ) is the largest national park in Angola. It is situated in the Southwestern corner of the country, in Namibe Province. It is roughly bound by the Atlantic Ocean to the West, an escarpment to the East that marks ...

, which also includes moving sand dunes of the Namib Desert. The Curoca forms part of the northern border of the park and also runs through the Lagoa dos Arcos and the Regional Natural Park of Namibe (''Parque Natural Regional do Namibe''). Its mouth is at the Atlantic Ocean, north of the community of Tômbwa. The lagoons support plants including bamboo and thorn trees and animals such as springbok and oryx. Lagoa dos Arcos oasis is noted as a tourist destination. The seasonal flooding of the river supports the limited agriculture and grazing conducted in the area. A San group who live near the river and spoke a language called

Curoca Curoca or Kuroka is a municipality in Cunene Province in Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , rel ...

but the language is now considered extinct. The members of the group have adopted a Bantu language.Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages
Christopher Moseley, Routledge, Dec 6, 2012,

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Rivers of Angola {{Angola-river-stub

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