FOCUS ON ADAMAWA STATE CULTURE AND TOURISM

               ADAMAWA STATE CULTURE AND TOURISM
 
            
                                        ADAMAWA STATE MAP

Yola city gate

                                 ADAMAWA - THE LAND OF BEAUTY

Adamawa State is essentially a picturesque mountainous land transversed by river valleys of Benue, Gongola and Yedsarem. The valleys of Cameroun, Mandara and Adamawa mountains form part this undulating landscape. Crops such as maize, rice, millet, sugar cane, cotton, groundnut, gum arabic, guinea corn, tea and kola nuts are all successfully grown in the state.
There are abundant deposits of mineral ore in the state such as iron, lead, zinc, limestone etc. The state is part of the old Gongola State with the headqauter in Yola.

Adamawa State is well noted for a rich cultural heritage which is reflected in its past history, craftmanship, music, dance, dress patterns and hospitality. Festivals such as Njuwa fishing festival which holds at Lake Njuwa in nYola town and the Yinagu fishing festival at the Michika attracts people within and outside state from the month of March through May each year.
Sukur Cultural Landscape

Located in the Mandara mountains of Adamawa State, Sukur Cultural Landscape is listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites lists in 1999 because of its exceptional landscape illustrating a form of land-use that marks a critical stage in human settlement and its relationship with its environment. The cultural landscape of Sukur is also eloquent testimony to a strong and continuing spiritual and cultural tradition that has endured for many centuries.

Mandara Mountains
The Mandara Mountains lie in the northeastern part of the state along the Cameroon border, and the Shebshi Mountains rise to Mount Dimlang (6,699 feet [2,042 m]) in the state’s south-eastern portion. Mandara is an ideal place for rock and mountain climbing.
Koma Hills

Koma hills is located on the mountainous fringes bordering the Republic of Cameroon and Nigeria in Jada, a local government area in Adamawa state, North East of Nigeria. Koma people, the inhabitants of the hills is a pre-modern race representing a past way of life probably of stone age, compact with primitive themes and mode of dressing bordering on nudity which they uphold as a cultural heritage
Lamurde Hot Spring

Lamurde hot spring is part of the world popular Sukur Cultural Landscape, which consists of a palace, villages, and the remains of an iron industry. The place was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1999 and has since become one of the top tourist destinations in Nigeria.
Others are: Moddibbo Adams Tomb Monument, Kiri Dam, Three Sister Rocks/Hills


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