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Idanre Hill (Oke Idanre) Sacred Grove
Idanre, Ondo State, southwestern Nigeria
Nigeria
Active (Orosun festival; UNESCO tentative)
Regional cluster
- Location
- Idanre, Ondo State, southwestern Nigeria
- Coordinates
- ~7.10°N 5.10°E
- Elevation
- Hill ~900 m (rises ~3,000 ft)
- Size
- Cultural landscape (~800 km² hill range)
- Age / Founded
- Inhabited 800+ years (ancient Idanre settlement)
- Status
- Active (Orosun festival; UNESCO tentative)
- Deity & Religion
- Goddess Orosun (fertility/protection) & Olofin; Yoruba traditional religion
- Community & Guardians
- Idanre people (Yoruba)
- Vernacular name
- Igbo (Yoruba sacred forest) / Oke
- Record type
- Regional cluster
Cultural practices & uses
King-installation rites, ancestral veneration; Orosun festival; shrines, Agboogun footprint, Omi Apaara (thunder water); initiates-only sacred areas
Plant species
Inselberg montane & forest vegetation
Biome & fauna
Granite inselberg with forested valleys
Threats & protection
Nigerian National Monument; UNESCO World Heritage tentative list; cultural protection
Source
Idanre Hill (Wikipedia); Come to Nigeria — Oke Idanre; Adeyanju 2020 (UBC MSc thesis)