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Sukur or Sukur Cultural Landscape is located on a hill above the village of Sukur in the Adamawa State. It is located about 120 km south of Maidaguri local government area of Adamawa state in Northeast Nigeria, in the Mandara Mountains close to Nigeria/Cameroon border.It has a total area of 764.4 ha (1,889 acres). It is about 290 km from Yola, the Adamawa state capital of North Eastern Nigeria. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located on a hill above the village of Sukur. Its inscription by UNESCO was done based on the cultural heritage of the Hidi's Palace complex and village, material culture, and the naturally-terraced fields. which are in an intact condition. Sukur is Africa's first cultural landscape to receive World Heritage List inscription. It is a hilltop settlement which stood at an elevation of 1045 m. The total land area covered by the site is 1942.50 ha. Sukur is an ancient settlement with a recorded history of iron smelting technology, flourishing trade, and strong political institution dating back to the 16th century. The area has been under essentially the same form of land management for at least 400 years, under the Dur dynasty of chiefs. Local granite has been used to build terraced fields (which are invested with a spiritual significance with sacred trees and ritual sites), and defensive dry stone walls around homesteads. The area has a long tradition of iron smelting, and village architecture reflects the prevailing social hierarchy, the most prominent set of buildings being the Hidi (chief’s) Palace located on a hilltop overlooking the rest of the village.
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Event Center
It's an event centre that provide many services to the people in Yola and the other neighboring states, their service include: leisure area, PA pranking play ground, theater center, event center and ball room.
GGNP
Nigeria’s largest national park was gazetted from two game reserves in 1991. It is located in the mountainous region of North-Eastern Nigeria adjacent to the international border with Cameroon. There is a wide variety of diversity because of the many different terrains, such as savannah grasslands, montane forests, and steep, mountainous regions. Gashaka Gumti National Park is approximately two-thirds of Nigeria's land, which places it within the middle of the African Plate. The only hazard that effects the national park are landslides. This national park has about 103 species of mammals. These species include yellow-backed duiker, African golden cat (Profelis aurata), African buffalo and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). The park is contiguous with Faro and Tchabal Mbado National Parks in the Republic of Cameroon. The park experiences varying pleasant weather conditions, depending on one’s location within the park. These range from tropical dry humid, tropical moist humid in the lowlands to sub tropical highland weather on the high plateau around Chappal waddi, Sabere and Fillinga. This corner of West Africa is surely one of Africa’s best kept secrets. The park also contains some historic sites one of which is the pre-1918 German fort and garrison top of Gashaka Hill which was once used as a watch tower by the German military expedition to that area. Gashaka sector of the park can be accessed through Katsina Ala-Takum-Bali-Serti –Bodel Gate and the other from Jalingo-Mutum Biyu-Bali-Serti-Bodel Gate, while the main access to Gumti sector is from Yola-Mayo Belwa-Ganye-Sugu-Toungo.