Edéa is a city located in western Cameroon by the Sanaga River and near the railroad line Douala-Yaoundé. As of 1989, the city has an estimated 31,000 inhabitants. There are bauxite facilities, aluminium processing facility, steel processing facility, timber facilities, paper facilities and some water power stations in the city. At outskirts of Edéa people are farming bananas, oil palms and cacao trees. Douala is a city near the Atlantic coast in Cameroon. ... View of Yaoundé Yaoundé, estimated population 1,430,000 ( 2004), is the capital city of Cameroon and second largest city in the West African country after Douala. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bauxite Bauxite is a naturally occurring, heterogeneous material composed primarily of one or more aluminium hydroxide minerals, plus various mixtures of silica, iron oxide, titania, aluminosilicate, and other impurities in minor or trace amounts. ... General Name, Symbol, Number aluminium, Al, 13 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13 (IIIA), 3, p Density, Hardness 2700 kg/m3, 2. ... Steel framework Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ... Timber Timber is a term used to describe clusters of trees. ... A power station (also power plant) is a facility for the generation of electric power. ... Species Hybrid origin; see text A banana is a tree-like plant (though strictly a herb) of the genus Musa in the family Musaceae, closely related to plantains. ... Species Elaeis guineensis Elaeis oleifera The oil palms (Elaeis) coomprise two species of the Arecaceae, or palm family. ...