Ebolowa

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title: "Ebolowa" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-south-region-(cameroon)", "provincial-capitals-in-cameroon"] description: "City in Cameroon; capital of South Region" topic_path: "general/populated-places-in-south-region-cameroon" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebolowa" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary City in Cameroon; capital of South Region ::

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image_skyline	Carrefour An 2000.jpg
image_caption	Ebolowa in 2019
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	subdivision_type
subdivision_name	[[Image:Flag of Cameroon.svg
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	South
subdivision_type2	Department
subdivision_name2	Mvila
established_title
established_title2
established_title3
established_date3
area_total_km2	1,500
area_land_km2
	population_as_of
population_footnotes
population_total	76,885
population_density_km2	auto
population_blank1_title	Ethnicities
population_blank2_title	Religions
population_density_blank1_sq_mi
coordinates
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elevation_m	636
elevation_ft
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Ebolowa is a city in Cameroon. It is the capital of the South Region and the Mvila department. Its economy is primarily agricultural, with cocoa bean being its main crop.

Economy

Agriculture

Agriculture is the primary industry of Ebolowa, with about 80% of the population working in the industry. The city has a fruit tree nursey which grows and transports 2,500 seeds annually.

Ebolowa's main crop is cocoa bean, and in 2024, a planned Puratos cocoa factory in the city was announced, alongside one in Obala. Another processing plant—composed of three buildings—was agreed upon between mayor André Thomas Bengon and , the Japanese ambassador to Cameroon. The agreement was sponsored by minister of commerce Luc Magloire Atangana Mbarga.

On 13 November 2024, operation of a tractor manufacturing plant in Ebolowa was granted to Cameroon's National Center for Studies and Experimentation of Agricultural Machinery (Ceneema), a company that studies and adapts agricultural machinery. The deal was agreed upon by Ceneema executive Andrée Caroline Mélanie Ekotto Minkouna, and minister of finance Alamine Ousmane Mey, as well as receiving support from the Exim Bank of India.

Bushmeat

Situated 60 kilometers east of Campo Ma'an National Park, Ebolowa is a center in the Cameroonian bushmeat trade. Pangolin is often sold as bushmeat, with 10.3% of the city's residents said they eat pangolin at least once month in 2024, down from 2022, which was 14.1%.

Logging

Illegal logging occurs in nearby forests. There is a sawmill in Ebolowa which processed 5,000 cubic meters of lumber monthly. In 2016, Cameroon United Forests planned to acquire the sawmill.

Transportation

Ebolowa is connected to Yaoundé with a 168-kilometer northward paved road, as well as another paced road running south through Ambam and into Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. In 2025, the Cameroonian government planned to construct a road from Ebolowa to Kribi, costing an estimated CFA$137,000,000,000 and measuring 179 kilometers in length.

It is served by Ebolowa Airport.

Climate

Ebolowa has a borderline tropical savanna (Köppen Aw)/tropical monsoon climate (Am) with consistently very warm to hot temperatures, a short dry season in December and January, and two rainfall peaks in April and October. | width = auto | metric first = yes | single line = yes | location = Ebolowa (1981–2010) |temperature colour = pastel | Jan high C = 29.3 | Feb high C = 30.1 | Mar high C = 29.8 | Apr high C = 29.4 | May high C = 28.9 | Jun high C = 27.7 | Jul high C = 26.5 | Aug high C = 26.5 | Sep high C = 27.5 | Oct high C = 27.8 | Nov high C = 28.3 | Dec high C = 28.5 | Jan low C = 22.3 | Feb low C = 20.3 | Mar low C = 20.2 | Apr low C = 20.3 | May low C = 20.3 | Jun low C = 20.1 | Jul low C = 19.6 | Aug low C = 19.6 | Sep low C = 19.2 | Oct low C = 19.8 | Nov low C = 20.1 | Dec low C = 20.2 | rain colour = green | Jan rain mm = 31.1 | Feb rain mm = 62.3 | Mar rain mm = 158.1 | Apr rain mm = 206.1 | May rain mm = 197.8 | Jun rain mm = 141.5 | Jul rain mm = 60.8 | Aug rain mm = 115.5 | Sep rain mm = 215.3 | Oct rain mm = 293.3 | Nov rain mm = 167.4 | Dec rain mm = 37.4 | source 1 = World Meteorological Organization{{cite web |url = https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/city.html?cityId=3017 |title = World Weather Information Service |publisher = World Meteorological Organization |access-date = 19 August 2024}}

References

References

1. (January 2021). "Market characteristics and zoonotic disease risk perception in Cameroon bushmeat markets". Social Science & Medicine.
3. "Ebolowa".
4. (2005). "Slash-and-burn agriculture: the search for alternatives". Columbia University Press.
5. "Cameroon Welcomes Two New Cocoa Processing Plants".
6. "Japan to support the construction of a processing plant in Ebowola".
7. "Ceneema Takes Over Ebolowa Tractor Plant to Boost Agriculture".
8. "Conservation-friendly livelihoods limit illegal bushmeat trade {{!}} African Wildlife Foundation".
9. Beck, Kaylyn. (2024-05-14). "Pangolin Meat Consumption Falls in Cameroon as Support for Protection Rises".
10. "Unauthorized logging in the Ebolowa I, Ebolowa II and Akom II communal forest – CIDT".
11. admin. (2016-10-30). "Major acquisitions at the Ebolowa sawmill".
12. "Cameroon Plans to Build 754 km of Paved Roads in 2025".
13. "Airport record for Ebolowa Airport". Landings.com.

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