Travel Guide Bitam

The last town in the north of Gabon, Bitam is located 30 km from the Cameroonian border. In the Fang language, Bitam means "the wells". Cosmopolitan, lively and colorful, the city is known for its large market and for its small restaurants serving various bush meats. The main activity is the cultivation of rubber trees, for the benefit of the Siat-Gabon company, which bought Hévégab in 2004. There are 2,000 hectares of large rubber plantations here, and the villagers themselves own several hundred more hectares. The region has begun to diversify its economy by raising tilapia, a freshwater fish popular with the Gabonese