Iwo · Wikivoyage
Iwo is a city in Osun State, Southwest Nigeria. It lies 6 miles (10 km) North of the Iwo station on the Lagos-Kano railway and at the intersection of roads from Ibadan, Oyo, and Ogbomosho, on a low hill at the edge of savanna and forest. The Iwo people, like all other people of Yoruba stock are said to have belonged to Ile-Ife from where they migrated sometimes in the 14th century. The present city of Iwo was founded founded in the 16th/17th century and it became the capital of the Yoruba kingdom of Iwo.