Batié
Batié is a common located in the department of the Top-Plates of the Province of the West of the Cameroun.
The relief is mountainous, the ground is covered with sand.
The climate is fresh.
Cultures of revenue there are practiced.
Batié was born from a grouping of nine Village S and was attached to the district Bamendjou.
It was transformed in turn into district, before becoming a district with by whole.
Batié is known for its collar called the collar Batié, most known of Cameroun. Here, the trunk road which connects Douala and Bafoussam curves on an assembly line escarpées which culminates with 2000 meters of altitude. The other milked characteristic of Batié is the mount Metchou (2000 m), the top which dominates this mountainous village. Batié is also famous for its sand mines which are open on the sides of its mountains. It is this richness sands some which gave its name to the football team of the village, the Sand of Batié, which became champion of Cameroun in 1999, becoming then the first Cameronian team to qualify itself for the phase of group of the Champions League of the African Confederation of Football (CIF).
Its higher chief is king Tchouankam Yousseu Theodore, which succeeded his/her father Victor Dada in 1988.