states: [nigeria]
category: cultural
year: 1999
location: Madagali Local Government Area, Adamawa State
region: Africa
latitude/longitude: 10.7405600000, 13.5719400000
The Sukur Cultural Landscape, with the Palace of the Hidi (Chief) on a hill dominating the villages below, the terraced fields and their sacred symbols, and the extensive remains of a former flourishing iron industry, is a remarkably intact physical expression of a society and its spiritual and material culture.
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