Mount Erongo

{{Short description|Mountain in Namibia}}

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File:Tourmaline-feldspar-quartz, Erongo Granite Namibia.jpg tourmaline-rich sample from the Erongo Granite. The Erongo Granite is a subvolcanic ring dike, above an old volcano.]]

Mount Erongo (21º37'S 15º40'E) is a mountain of 2,350 metres northeast of Swakopmund in Erongo Region, Namibia. Like the Brandberg Mountain it is a granitic intrusion. It is the only place on Earth that Versicorpus erongoensis, a dung beetle species, occurs. {{cite journal |author=Christian M. Deschodt, Adrian L.V. Davis & Clarke H. Scholtz |year=2011 |title=New dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) taxa from arid south-western Africa |journal=Insect Systematics & Evolution |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=277–294 |doi=10.1163/187631211X568173|hdl=2263/19586 |url=https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/2263/19586/1/Deschodt_New%282011%29.pdf |hdl-access=free }}