About 45 minutes from Malabo on Bioko´s southwest coast, this fishing town of about 8,000 is dramatically set between the mountains and the Atlantic and offers a look into local life (especially check out its central market), Spanish colonial buildings such as its old hospital and church; port buildings including warehouses, customs and adminastrative offices, and merchant premises tied to the cocoa and timber trades; and the early-20th-century modernist house (dubbed "Patio Magazine") of Maximilian Jones, a prominent local businessman and patriarch of Liberian origin.
Nearby are pristine beaches; the Moka Waterfall; the 130,000-acre Luba Crater Scientific Reserve; known for its monkeys; Pico Basilé, at 9,879 feet Equatorial Guinea´s highest peak; and the village of Batete, home to more Spanish colonial buildings including the distinctive, neo-Gothic San Antonio María Claret Church, built in 1922 entirely of wood.
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