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Bioko (/ b iː ˈ oʊ k oʊ /; [3] Spanish: ⓘ, historically Fernando Po, Spanish: [feɾˈnando ˈpo] ⓘ; Bube: Ëtulá a Ëri) is an island of Equatorial Guinea. It is located 32 km (20 mi) south of the coast of Cameroon , and 160 km (99 mi) northwest of the northernmost part of mainland Equatorial Guinea.
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Both Bioko and Mount Cameroon are part of the Cameroon Volcanic Line, a line of volcanoes that runs northeast-southwest across the Cameroon Highlands and extending into the Atlantic Ocean as the islands of Bioko, São Tomé, Príncipe, and Annobón. At over 4,000 m Mount Cameroon is the highest peak in western Africa, and is still an active ...
Pico Basilé (formerly Pico de Santa Isabel or Clarence Peak), [2] located on the island of Bioko, is the tallest mountain of Equatorial Guinea.With an elevation of 9,878 ft (3,011 m), it is the summit of the largest and highest of three overlapping basaltic shield volcanoes which form the island.
San Antonio de Ureca, also known as Ureka or Ureca is a village in Bioko Sur, Equatorial Guinea, south of Malabo on the island of Bioko. The town of Ureka is included among the wettest areas in the world; it receives about 10,450 millimeters (418 ins) of rainfall annually. It is the wettest place in Africa. [1]
Bioko is on the African continental shelf and was probably connected to the mainland until the last ice age ended. [5] It is part of the Cameroon line, a string of volcano-capped swells that extends for almost 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) from the island of Pagalu in the southwest through to Oku on the mainland in the northeast. [6]
Bioko Island, the indigenous land of the Bubi Kingdom. The Bubi people are subdivided into a number of tribes and subtribes that go back centuries. Indigenous Bubi folklore indicate that the tribe immigrated to Bioko Island some 3,000 years ago as a means of escaping servitude.
Bioko Island, called Fernando Po until the 1970s, is the largest island in the Gulf of Guinea — 2,017 square kilometers (779 sq mi). It is shaped like a boot, with two large volcanic formations separated by a valley that bisects the island at its narrowest point.