Ngaoundéré
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| Coordinates | 7 ° 19 ′ N , 13 ° 35 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Cameroon | ||
| Adamaoua | |||
| district | Vina | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | CM-AD | ||
| height | 1100 m | ||
| Residents | 231,376 (January 1, 2005) | ||
Ngaoundéré (German: Ngaundere) is a city in northern Cameroon , on the edge of the Adamaua highlands and capital of the Adamaoua region . It is located at an altitude of 1100 m and has 231,376 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2005). The place is the seat of a tribal prince ( laamiido ) of the Fulbe and is important as an agricultural trade center, seat of a university for agriculture and technology with around 7000 students and a location for jewelry production. Ngaoundéré is the seat of a Catholic bishop. The Protestant hospital there works with the University of Greifswald . In addition to a small airport, on which medium- haul jets such as Boeing 737 can operate, there is the end point of the Douala – Ngaoundéré railway line and the still well-preserved old town of the Fulbe from the 19th century with a mosque and the palace des laamiido .
history
The city was essentially shaped by Islam . Originally a Mboum group was based here, whose settlement Ngaoukor in 1831 by the Islamic Fulbe under the leadership of Ardo Njobdi b. Umaru was subjugated by Bundang. The Fulbe built the city into one of their most important centers of power in today's Cameroon. The Mboum population tried in the following decades in vain to break away from the suzerainty of the Fulbe.
In 1882 Robert Flegel was probably the first European to visit the city, and in January it was passed by the French colonial officer Louis-Alexandre Mizon . In 1894, Ardo Muhammadu Abbo concluded a "protection contract" with the German geographer Siegfried Passarge, initially without consequences
It was not until 1901 that the city was occupied by the German military under the command of Cramer von Clausbruch and the then ruling Ardo Abbo was killed. The colonial administration replaced him with the loyal Ardo Mai. Ngaoundéré became part of the Adamaua residency , but was only sporadically occupied by soldiers. It was not until 1913 that Adamaua dissolved it as part of an administrative reorganization in North Cameroon and became the seat of its own residence .
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Ngaoundéré
Source: wetterkontor.de
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Hydrology
Ngaoundéré is geohydrologically interesting because it is located on the watershed of three large catchment areas. The headwaters of the Vina , which flows into the Chad Basin , lie in a north-easterly direction, and in the south that of the "southern" Vina , which drains into the Sanaga . In addition, the Benue in the north and the Faro in the north- west , a tributary of the Benue, has its source rivers that flow into the Niger system .
literature
- Florian Hoffmann: Occupation and military administration in Cameroon. Establishment and institutionalization of the colonial monopoly of violence 1891–1914 , Göttingen 2007
