Moloundou is an ''arrondissement'' (district) in the
Boumba-et-Ngoko
Boumba-et-Ngoko is a department of East Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 30,389 km and as of 2001 had a total population of 116,702. The capital of the department lies at Yokadouma.
Subdivisions
The department is div ...
Division of southeastern
Cameroon
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's
East Province. Mouloundou is close to
Boumba Bek and
Nki National Park
Nki National Park (Parc national de Nki, also Réserve de Nki) is a national park in southeastern Cameroon, located in its East Province. The closest towns to Nki are Yokadouma, Moloundou and Lomie, beyond which are rural lands. Due to its remo ...
s on the
Dja River
The Dja River (also known as the Ngoko River) is a stream in west-central Africa. It forms part of Cameroon–Republic of Congo border and has a course of roughly .
Rising southeast of the southeastern Cameroon town of Abong-Mbang, the Dja Fauna ...
. It has a mayor and several decentralised administrative services.
History
In the 1890s, Moloundou was "one of the richest rubber areas of Africa" and Germans established a rubber making plant here.
Geography and climate
Mouloundou is situated roughly 280 km from the Cameroonian
Republic of Congo
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border town of
Yokadouma
Yokadouma is a town and Catholic bishopric in eastern Cameroon, lying near the border with the Central African Republic. It was an early French administrative centre.
During the colonial period, Yokadouma was the centre for a widespread but ill-f ...
.
It is close to
Boumba Bek and
Nki National Park
Nki National Park (Parc national de Nki, also Réserve de Nki) is a national park in southeastern Cameroon, located in its East Province. The closest towns to Nki are Yokadouma, Moloundou and Lomie, beyond which are rural lands. Due to its remo ...
s
on the
Dja River
The Dja River (also known as the Ngoko River) is a stream in west-central Africa. It forms part of Cameroon–Republic of Congo border and has a course of roughly .
Rising southeast of the southeastern Cameroon town of Abong-Mbang, the Dja Fauna ...
.
The town has a
tropical climate
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with temperature ranging from 23.1–25˚C with an average annual temperature of 24˚C.
Its relative humidity varies between 60 and 90% while annual rainfall is 1500mm per year.
According to the Cameroon Ministry of Agriculture, Moloundou has a rainy season from September to November, a dry season from November to March, a rainy season from March to June, and a dry season from July to August.
Demographics
The area around Mouloundou, as defined by the
World Wildlife Fund
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, has a population of 22,882 people, mostly ethnic
Bantus and, despite being named a minority in Cameroon's constitution of 18 January 1996,
Baka Pygmies.
These include the Djem, Bangando, Bakwele and Zime tribes.
Non-indigenous employees of logging companies and traders make up a sizeable amount of the population.
The population density of the region is about five people per km
2, concentrated along the main Yokadouma-Moloundou road.
The villages near Mouloundou are mostly homogeneous as there are few non-natives, mostly working as civil servants or traders.
References
{{Communes of East Region, Cameroon
Populated places in East Region (Cameroon)