Nkongsamba

Nkongsamba is a city of the Cameroun. Located at 145 kilometers of Douala and at 370 kilometers of Yaounde is 6 hours of road, Nkongsamba is a great agricultural center with the culture and the marketing of the Café like principal activities. Blotties in a basin triangular and delimited by attractive mounts which are jagged volcanic craters: Manengouba with 2400 meters, Nlonako and Koupé, where with the dires of the villagers the protective gods of the area live.

The industrial main activity with Nkongsamba is the dehusking of the Café. It is a seasonal activity which makes it possible to the inhabitants to generate their incomes on a half of the year, other half being devoted to the various activities like the culture of but, the palm oil and the small shop.

Side education, the town of Nkongsamba has ten establishments of the second degree. The College of Manengouba and the college St Jeanne d' Arc count among the establishments of great fame on all the extent of the Cameronian territory.

In addition to the establishments of secondary education, Nkongsamba has a school of training of the teachers of the secondary.

After the construction of the railroad in the city in 1912 by the German , the name of Nsamba was given to the latter by the German administration. Occupied by the English in 1914, the city passes under control French in 1916 before becoming an administrative center in 1923, thus succeeding Baré.

Nkongsamba was the terminus of the railroad, on the basis of Douala while passing by Mbanga with a junction on Kumba.

Estimated at approximately 110.600 inhabitants in 2001, the population of Nkongsamba is a mixture of various Cameronian ethnos groups. Beside the auchtones, Mbos, one finds amongst other things Bamilékés, Tikars, the Peuhl S and Bororos.

Nkongsamba is the place chief of the Moungo in the Province of the Littoral.

Falls of Ekom

With approximately 30 kilometers of Nkongsamba, on the road of the West, between Nkongsamba and Melong, one takes a track of 11 kilometers which leads to the village of Ekom where one can see very beautiful falls. Nkam which makes the border between the provinces of the Littoral and the West throws a height of 80m. Hello my name is Perl The falls of Ekom were used as decoration with the film Greystoke with Christophe Lambert.

Solid mass of Manengouba

The solid mass of Manengouba is a famous natural site. Formed by old volcanos, it lends itself to short excursions. From the villages where the coffee is cultivated, one goes up in a few hours in the middle of the solid mass where live the Bororos stockbreeders. It is not rare to see such a division of space. The farmers occupy the plains and the first buttresses, the stockbreeders (of ethnos group peuhl) settle higher.

This old volcano belongs to the Western volcanic dorsal, like the Mount Cameroun and the Bamboutos Mounts. It dominates of its 2411 meters of altitude.

At the top, the luxuriant vegetation disappears to leave room to green hills

One finds there also 2 lakes of craters, where one can bathe.

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Diocese of Nkongsamba
List of the bishops of Nkongsamba
Cathedral of Nkongsamba

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