Morphological, physical and chemical studies were carried out on soils of Mount Bambouto, a volcanic mountain of the West
Cameroon highland. These studies show that the soils of this region can be divided into seven groups according to Soils Taxonomy
USA [Soil taxonomy: a basic system of soil classification for making and interpreting soils surveys: USDA Agriculture Handbook
436: Washington, DC, US Government Pronting Office, 1975, 754]: lithic dystrandept soils, typical dystrandept soils, oxic dystrandept
soils, typical haplohumox soils, typical kandiudox soils, tropopsamment soils and umbriaquox soils. A soils map of this region
at scale 1:50,000 has been drawn up, using the seven soils groups above as soil cartography units. These soils are organised into of
three main categories: soils with andic characteristics in the upper region of the mountain (lithic dystrandept soils, typical dystrandept
soils and oxic dystrandept soils); ferrallitic soils in the lower part of the mountain (typical haplohumox soils and typical
kandiudox soils) and imperfectly developed soils (tropopsamment soils and umbraquox soils).