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# PARIS2015
30 NOVEMBER - 11 DECEMBER
Press Kit
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# NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF CAMEROON
I- GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION
Cameroon is a country in Central and West Africa. She shares her boundaries with Nigeria (west), the Atlantic Ocean (southwest), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo (south), the Central African Republic and Chad (east), Lake Chad (north).
Situated at the heart of Africa, Cameroon has a diverse relief, climate and flora. It is for this reason that she is nicknamed «Africa in miniature».
II- CLIMATE
Cameroon offers a wide range of tropical climates because it stretches from Lake Chad towards the equator; eleven degrees latitude (2° to 13° of the north latitude).
- Temperatures
Cameroon is located around a hot climatic zone. Temperatures are high. It increases from the south to the north (24°C in Yaounde and 30° in Kousseri). The topography also influences the temperatures. It is hotter in Douala, in the coastal plain, than in Yaounde on the South Cameroon plateau.
- Rainfall
Rainfall is unevenly distributed, subject to the influence of the proximity to the sea, latitude and altitude. They decrease from south to north (Douala 4125 mm of water per year, Kousseri: 541 mm per year), from the coast to the interior (Kribi: 300 mm per year, Yaoundé: 1597 mm per year). They increase with altitude (Mokolo: 974 mm per year, Maroua: 815 mm per year).
- Air Masses
Cameroon's climates are influenced by seasonal swing of two air masses. The mass of continental air, which is stable and warm from the Saharan anticyclone called the Harmattan; and maritime air mass, which is unstable and wet, blowing of the anticyclone of St. Helena, called the monsoon. These air masses that move in latitude, meet along the Inter-tropical Front (ITF), causing the rainy season.
Three climatic zones exist in Cameroon:
> Equatorial zone
The equatorial climatic zone on the South Cameroon Plateau extends to 6° of the north latitude. It is subdivided into: - a «Guinean type» with four seasons (one large and one small dry seasons ranging respectively from December to March and from June to August, a large and a small rainy seasons that last from September to November and from March to June respectively), and the average temperature of 25°C; and - a «Cameroonian type» on Mount Cameroon, particularly hot and humid, with abundant and continuous rains over nine months.
> Sudanese zone