Idenau

Idenau
Coordinates	4 ° 14 ′  N , 8 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 4 ° 14 ′  N , 8 ° 59 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Cameroon
region	Sud-Ouest
height	80 m

Fishing boats in Idenau

Idenau is a place in the southwest province on the Cameroonian Atlantic coast near Bibundi , west of the Cameroon Mountain and near the border with Nigeria . It is 80 meters above sea level and has about 15,000 inhabitants.

The place takes its name from the German colonial times. The founder was the Mannheim entrepreneur Ferdinand Scipio (1837–1905) in 1897/98 . The German Colonial Lexicon of 1920 records the private company Idenau-Pflanzung from Stuttgart as the owner , on whose territory cocoa, rubber, bananas, oil palms and coffee are planted.

Located at an estuary, there is now a small fishing port and, to a lesser extent, tourism. In the area around Idenau, oil palms are grown in large plantations .

Web links

Commons : Idenau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Idenau at cvuc.cm

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Data on Idenau from Falling Rain Genomics, accessed on July 14, 2010.
2. ^ Digital scan from Baden biographies
3. ^ Idenau planting , in: Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon , Volume II, Leipzig 1920, p. 88.