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Yorùbá Urban Sacred Groves (Ọ̀yọ́-Ilé & Ilé-Ifẹ̀, regional/historical)
Ọ̀yọ́-Ilé and Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Yorùbáland, southwestern Nigeria
Nigeria
Partly historical/active
Regional cluster
- Location
- Ọ̀yọ́-Ilé and Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Yorùbáland, southwestern Nigeria
- Coordinates
- ~8.1°N 4.3°E (Ọ̀yọ́-Ilé)
- Age / Founded
- Ancient (>1 millennium of Yorùbá urbanism)
- Status
- Partly historical/active
- Deity & Religion
- Yorùbá deities (òrìṣà)
- Community & Guardians
- Yorùbá city-dwellers
- Vernacular name
- Igbó / Oró grove
- Record type
- Regional cluster
Cultural practices & uses
Embedded in urban planning; isolation/quarantine sites during epidemics (e.g. Pẹhẹ, 1827–1831)
Plant species
Urban forest groves
Biome & fauna
Guinea forest-savanna
Threats & protection
Historical; archaeologically elusive
Source
Ogundiran 2020, African Archaeological Review 37(3):497-502