Owo (Nigeria)
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| Coordinates | 7 ° 12 ' N , 5 ° 35' E | ||
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| Country | Nigeria | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | NG-ON | ||
| Residents | 166,357 (calculation 2012) | ||
Owo is a city in the Nigerian state of Ondo and is located in the southwest of Nigeria. According to a calculation from 2012, it has 166,357 inhabitants.
Owo is an agricultural center between Benin City and Ile-Ife . In the city are yams , cassava , corn , okra , pepper , cocoa and cotton traded. Between 1400 and 1600 Owo was the center of a Yoruba state. Excavations, led by Ekpo Eyo from 1969 to 1971, unearthed 15th century terracotta sculptures that testify to the influence of the cultural traditions of Benin City and Ile-Ife.
Owo and its surroundings form one of the 18 Local Government Areas (LGA) of the state of Ondo with an area of 1026.83 km². In the penultimate census in 1991, the LGA had 157,181 inhabitants and thus a population density of 153 inhabitants per km².
literature
- Ekpo Eyo : Two Thousand Years Nigerian Art. Photographs André and Ursula Held, pages 124-130, Federal Department of Antiquities, Lagos, Nigeria 1977
- Ekpo Eyo and Frank Willett : Art Treasures from Old Nigeria. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1983 ISBN 3-8053-0738-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: population data of the city of Owo
- ^ The 774 Local Government Areas. Owo Local Government Area. Nigeria Congress Online, archived from the original on January 30, 2004 ; accessed on January 1, 2007 .
Web links
- Ivory container from Owo , Metropolitan Museum of Art