Mount Heha

Where is Mount Heha?

Mount Heha is part of the Burundian Highlands.

You will find it in: Burundi.

Summit: 3.603° S, 29.499° E

The story behind it

Burundi is a country of rolling green hills, and Mount Heha is the highest of them all, even though the measured heights differ by a few metres. The summit sits on the watershed between two great rivers: rain falling on one side runs towards the Congo, rain on the other side begins the long journey to the Nile. Because the mountain is high, the air stays cool all year, mist drifts through the eucalyptus trees in the morning and the afternoon often brings heavy showers. Farmers grow tea, beans and maize on the slopes, and narrow footpaths link the small houses that cling to the ridges. From the top, on a clear day, the land drops away towards Lake Tanganyika, a wide silver stripe far below.

Find it on the globe

Mount Heha 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.