Bata

Bata lies on the Atlantic coast of Río Muni, where tropical forest reaches toward the sea. The area formed part of the country of the Ndowe peoples. Accounts of the settlement of Baàtá place it in the seventeenth century, following the arrival of a Kombbe group under Bosenje à Mbwà, of the Bobbenjje clan. Its coastal position placed it among the communities of the mainland shore opposite the islands of the Gulf of Guinea.