Mount Wuteve is a

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located in

Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...

, whose summit is the

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. It is located in the

Guinea Highlands The Guinea Highlands is a densely forested mountainous plateau extending from central Guinea through northern Sierra Leone and Liberia to western Ivory Coast. The highlands include a number of mountains, ranges and plateaus, including the Fouta ...

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, whose parent range is the

West Africa Mountains West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...

. Data from the

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reveals that the correct elevation of its summit is 1,440 meters, and not the previously quoted 1,380 meters. It is also known as Mount Wologizi among locals of the Loma tribe.

References

West Africa Mountains

Guinea Highlands

Mount Wuteve
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