Mount Afadja

Where is Mount Afadja?

Mount Afadja is part of the Akwapim-Togo Ranges.

You will find it in: Ghana.

Summit: 7.027° N, 0.603° E

The story behind it

Afadja is one link in a long chain of forested ridges that runs from southern Ghana into Togo, and its steep sides are covered with tall grass, cocoa farms and patches of old forest. Whether it is truly the highest point of the country is still discussed, since the measurements differ by a few metres and a neighbouring hill has been put forward as well. The path to the top starts in the village of Liati Wote, climbs sharply through farmland and trees and takes about an hour and a half for most walkers. From the ridge the view reaches over the Volta hills into Togo, and on a clear day the Tagbo waterfall valley shows up as a dark green cut below. Butterflies are everywhere, and the nearby forest shelters monkeys, hornbills and many kinds of birds that villagers protect together.

Find it on the globe

Mount Afadja 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.