Baunez Ridge near Nepen Diakha

Where is the Baunez Ridge near Nepen Diakha?

The Baunez Ridge near Nepen Diakha is part of the Foothills of the Fouta Djallon.

You will find it in: the Senegal.

Summit: 12.373° N, 12.544° W

The story behind it

This corner of Senegal looks quite different from the flat, sandy west of the country, because near the border with Guinea the land rises into low tables of red sandstone with steep edges and shallow valleys between them. The Baunez ridge is one of those edges, covered in dry savanna woodland where bamboo thickets, tall grass, baobabs and shea trees grow, while ribbons of darker forest follow the streams. For half the year almost no rain falls and the grass turns brown and crackly, then the summer rains arrive and everything sprouts again within days. Villages of the Bassari, Bedik and Malinke peoples lie in the surrounding Kédougou region, and people move on footpaths between fields rather than on marked hiking trails. The ridge carries no summit sign and sees few visitors, so many people in Senegal have never heard its name.

Find it on the globe

The Baunez Ridge near Nepen Diakha is there as a small peak with its own shape — a horn, a ridge, a volcano — standing on the surface. From far away the planet is only a blue ball; detail arrives as you zoom in, and this one appears once you are close enough. Open it on the globe.

It sits at its real coordinates, not near them — the same numbers listed in the facts above. Switch off the layer for this kind of place and it disappears again; the buttons for that are down the right-hand edge.