Mount Wuteve

Where is Mount Wuteve?

Mount Wuteve is part of the Guinea Highlands.

You will find it in: Liberia.

Summit: 8.146° N, 9.925° W

The story behind it

Wuteve is less a single peak than a high shoulder on a ridge of very old rock that runs on into neighbouring Guinea. Rain falls here for most of the year, sometimes for days without a break, and the forest that covers the slopes is dense and dark, with tall trees, tangled climbing plants and a floor of wet leaves. Duikers, small forest antelopes, move quietly between the trunks, hornbills call from the canopy and clouds of butterflies gather at damp patches on the tracks. The many streams born on the ridge run down into rivers that flow to the Atlantic coast far to the south. Very few people live in this corner of Liberia: there are villages along the valleys, a few narrow paths and no proper road, so the mountain is visited more by hunters and farmers than by travellers.

Find it on the globe

Mount Wuteve 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.