Moloundou

Mouloundou
Mouloundou

Location in Cameroon

Coordinates: 2°3′N 15°10′E / 2.050°N 15.167°E / 2.050; 15.167Coordinates: 2°3′N 15°10′E / 2.050°N 15.167°E / 2.050; 15.167
Country Cameroon
Province East
Division Boumba-et-Ngoko

Moloundou is an arrondissement (district) in the Boumba-et-Ngoko Division of southeastern Cameroon's East Province. Mouloundou is close to Boumba Bek and Nki National Parks on the Dja River. It has a mayor and several decentralised administrative services.[1]

History

In the 1890s, Moloundou was "one of the richest rubber areas of Africa" and Germans established a rubber making plant here.[2]

Geography and climate

Mouloundou is situated roughly 280 km from the Cameroonian Republic of Congo border town of Yokadouma.[1] It is close to Boumba Bek and Nki National Parks[1] on the Dja River.[3] The town has a tropical climate with temperature ranging from 23.1-25˚C with an average annual temperature of 24˚C.[4] Its relative humidity varies between 60 to 90% while annual rainfall is 1500mm per year.[4] According to the Cameroon Ministry of Agriculture, Moloundou has a rainy season from September to November, a dry season from November to March, a rainy season from March to June, and a dry season from July to August.[1]

Demographics

The area around Mouloundou, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund, has a population of 22,882 people, mostly ethnic Bantus[4] and, despite being named a minority in Cameroon's constitution of 18 January 1996, Baka Pygmies.[1] These include the Djem, Bangando, Bakwele and Zime tribes.[4] Non-indigenous employees of logging companies and traders make up a sizeable amount of the population.[4] The population density of the region is about five people per km2, concentrated along the main Yokadouma-Moloundou road.[1] The villages near Mouloundou are mostly homogeneous as there are few non-natives, mostly working as civil servants or traders.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ndameu, Benoit (July 2001). "Case Study 7: Cameroon-Boumba Bek" (PDF). Forest Peoples Programme (Moreton-in-Marsh).
  2. ↑ M. J. van Binsbergen, Wim; Peter Geschiere (2005). Commodification: Things, Agency, and Identities : (The Social Life of Things Revisited). Lit. p. 254. ISBN 3-8258-8804-5.
  3. ↑ "Dja River". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-04.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Three National Parks of Southeast Cameroon" (Microsoft Word). World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2008-08-28.
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