Dialect: Ùpelè) is a town in Owo Local Government in Ondo State, South-Western Nigeria.

A Benin prince and a warrior called Mòkun (also known as Ọlọ́tẹ́n or Ọlọ́tín) and his elder brother Arókun were the first to settle in the land and place that is now known as Ipele (Ùpelè).

This is a persona he took after his own father, Oba Orogbua who made several expeditions from Benin to Eko (present day Lagos) during his reign.

The stream was later named “Omi- Aṣẹ̀” and till today in Ipele after the circumstantial killing of one of the slaves of Prince Mòkun who committed an offence (nítorí ó ṣẹ̀).

The elder brother, Prince Arókùn later decided to move upward with his own people to the present-day place called Òfì.

It happened in the process of time that a group of people believe to had migrated from Ile Ife with a large population also came to settle in the area and they were accommodated at Isírẹ́.

Next to settle after Òkò in the midlands was the Okeriwo people led by Aga and Ijale who were sibling brothers that migrated from an ancient quarter known as Oke-Ehigho in Benin Kingdom.

[3] In the last century and a half, new villages which started mostly as farm settlements have sprung up to add to Ipele’s population and growth.

The Ipele community also cultivates crops such as yam, cassava, cocoyam, tomatoes, pepper and corn in abundance.

In December 1906, the Iyeyeriye episode occurred, arising out of the Christmas sermon preached by one John Ige who came from Lagos to strengthen new Christian converts in Ipele.

During the sermon, he sang a song on the birth of Christ with the chorus Iyeyeriye Omolorun wa de o (Quite fittingly the Son of God arrives).

After this festival, they (the Ero graduates) become community elders and will no longer be required to participate in the communal manual work.

Its basic significance is to promote unity, peace, social cohesion and love among the indigenes of Ipele community.