Ukpor
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About Ukpor
Ukpo (can also be called Ukpor) is a town in Anambra State.
Ukpor travel guide
Understand
Ukpor is noted for its hilly topography, with one of the most notable of the hills that has been known as "ugwu ekwensu", which means "the devil's hill", and is now known as Ugwuonyezuberem.
See
St. Mary Catholic Church is a worship centre and a religious ground for the Catholics in Ukpo town.
Do
Asara is the greatest cultural festival celebrated by Ukpor community at a periodic intervals of ten, fifteen or even twenty years. Historically, the origin of the cultural festival can be traced to Ọgụ Agbaja (War of Agbaja) which was an intercommunal war between the people of Ukpor in the present-day Nnewi South Local Government and the people of Nnewi in the present-day Nnewi North Local Government, and in which the Ukpor people emerged victorious, after killing Metuh, the then greatest and most dreaded warrior of Nnewi.
Buy
Oye Market Abagana-Ukpo Rd. Variety of foodstuffs are sold in this market.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia, travel guide fromWikivoyage (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.