Rumpi Mountains

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Rumpi Mountains
Mungo valley, Cameroon.svg
Highest peak Mount Rata ( 1768  m )
location Cameroon
part of Cameroon Line
Coordinates 4 ° 50 ′  N , 9 ° 7 ′  E Coordinates: 4 ° 50 ′  N , 9 ° 7 ′  E
surface 1,500 km²
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The Rumpi Mountains are a western extension of the mountain formations of the Cameroon Line in the Cameroonian province of Sud-Ouest , around 80 km north of the Cameroon Mountain and 40 km west of the Bakossi Mountains . The Rumpi Mountains belong to the core settlement area of ​​the Oroko people .

The mountains cover an area of ​​around 1500 km², the highest point of which is Mount Rata, 1768 meters high. In the southwest of the Rumpi mountains lies the Dissoni crater lake , at approx. 461 meters above sea level. The Rumpi Hills Wildlife Reserve is located in the Rumpi Mountains and is the source of the Mungo . From there it first flows east and then south to the Cameroon estuary .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Volume III, p. 194, Rumpiberge
  2. Birdlife Factsheet CM 024 Mount Rata and Rumpi Hills Forest Reserve