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Batete

Batete is a cultural stop in southern Bioko, centred on a neo-Gothic wooden church built between 1922 and 1926, the village and its immediate landscape. Its interest combines architecture, local history and conservation in a humid coastal setting.

The place

What makes it special

  • Neo-Gothic church built between 1922 and 1926 with a tropical timber structure.
  • Connection between the architecture, the village and the landscape near San Carlos or Luba Bay.
  • Included on UNESCO’s Tentative List, not on the World Heritage List.
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Articles in Batete

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Batete

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Guides to this place

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Batete, Val plantation and Ureka across southern Bioko

The road to southern Bioko does not offer a single “nature day”. It brings together a wooden church linked to the island’s missionary and craft history, remnants of an agricultural landscape and a coast whose biodiversity calls for time, local agreements and measured expectations.

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Profile updated: 13/09/2026