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Agomé-Yoh
Agomé-Yoh or Agomé-Yo is a Togolese commune in the Kloto Prefecture, in the southwest of Togo in the Plateaux region. It is situated in the center of the Missahoé protected forest, neighboring Missahoé and near Kpalimé. The commune is close to Togo's most visited waterfall, Kamalo Falls, and remains the seat of the traditional authority of the Agomé people. Additionally, on the road leading to Missahoé, there are archaeological remains from the German colonization period. Toponymy The place is named after the Agomé people, to which was added a variety of trees found on the site upon their arrival, the "Yoti" trees. History Settlement The commune is located on the land of the Agomé people, a sub-group of the Ewe people, from whom it takes its name. Before their arrival in the 18th century, the area was inhabited by the Tové Ahoundjo, who migrated after the Agomé arrived. It is one of the five towns in Togo where the Agomé are the majority, and the first on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agome (people)
The Agome or Agomé are a people of West Africa, primarily settled in the southwest of Togo, in the Plateaux region and the Kloto prefecture. They emerged between the 17th and 18th centuries during the exodus of the Ewe from Notsé, and are a sub-group of the Ewe people. In the 21st century, the Agomé are mainly found around the town of Kpalimé, formerly Agomé-Kpalimé. Onomastics The origin of the name Yoh, which is sometimes attached to the term Agomé, especially for the main chieftaincy of the people in Agomé-Yoh, is unclear. It is either due to the name of trees that the first Agomé found, which were called "Yoti", or, according to Agomé oral tradition, the name of a people who preceded them in the area, who were called the "Yoh". History Origins The history of the Agomé is closely linked to that of the broader Ewe people, of which they are a part. The ancestors of this people settled in Notsé and founded a prosperous city-state there. However, after multiple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kpalimé
Kpalimé is a city in the Plateaux Region, Togo, Plateaux Region of Togo, 120 km north of Lomé and 15 km from the Ghana–Togo border, border with Ghana. It is the administrative capital of Kloto Prefecture. Kpalimé has a population of 75,084, making it the fourth-biggest town in Togo, after Lomé, Sokodé and Kara, Togo, Kara. The town has a cathedral, a scientific lycée, and a post-office, as well as several banks, medical centres, pharmacies, cyber-cafés and petrol stations. History Pre-colonial period (before 1890) Kpalimé was originally called Agomé-Kpalimé, being one of the villages of the Agomé people. Their origins can probably be traced to Yorubaland in modern Nigeria, and in particular to two cities: Ifè (the religious center) and Oyo, Nigeria, Oyo (the political and administrative center). Migrants gradually moved west, settling in Kétou (Benin), Tado (Togo), and eventually founding the town of Notsé. King Agokoli, who ruled Notsé in the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missahoé Protected Forest
Missahoé is a Togolese commune located in the Kloto Prefecture, in the southwestern part of Togo in the Plateaux region. It is situated in the center of the Missahoé protected forest, to which it gave its name, and near Kpalimé and Agomé-Yoh. The commune retains some colonial remains and is close to the most visited waterfall in Togo, Kamalo Falls. History Pre-colonial situation Colonization The small commune was named by the colonial administrator and governor of German Togoland, Jesko von Puttkamer, in 1890. It is not an endonym but an exonym, as von Puttkamer named the locality 'Misahöhe' in honor of his former lover, a Hungarian princess, Mária Esterházy von Galantha, nicknamed Misa. It was a strategic location for the colonizers due to its high altitude and cool climate, and they made build for them the governor's house, a courthouse, a prison, and a German cemetery there. During French colonization, which succeeded German colonization, in 1934, a meteo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamalo Falls
Kamalo Falls is a natural waterfall located near the commune of Missahoé, in the southwest of Togo, in the Kloto Prefecture and the Plateaux region. It is situated in the center of the Missahoé protected forest. It is the most visited waterfall in the country. The waterfall originates from Mount Kloto and is fed by a stream named Kamalo, which flows through the Missahoé protected forest. The waterfall itself is located near the commune of Missahoé and the commune of Agomé-Yoh. The only mineral water company in Togo, named "Cascade", used it as a source until the early 1990s. It then opened to tourism and became the most visited waterfall in the country. This was particularly possible because it is easily accessible, as it is close to the paved road connecting Kpalimé Kpalimé is a city in the Plateaux Region, Togo, Plateaux Region of Togo, 120 km north of Lomé and 15 km from the Ghana–Togo border, border with Ghana. It is the administrative capital of Kloto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kloto Prefecture
Kloto is a prefecture located in the Plateaux Region of Togo. The prefecture seat is located in Kpalimé. It is home to the Château Vial. The prefecture covers 508 km2, with a population in 2022 of 145,986. Cantons A canton is a type of administrative division of a country. In general, cantons are relatively small in terms of area and population when compared with other administrative divisions such as counties, departments, or provinces. Internationally, th ... of Kloto include Kpalimé, Agomé-Yoh, Lanvié, Hanyigba, Tové, Kpadapé, Gbalavé, Kuma, Kpimé, Woamé, Tomé, Agomé-Tomégbé, Lavié-Apédomé, and Yokélé. References Prefectures of Togo Plateaux Region, Togo {{Togo-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Togo
Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to Ghana–Togo border, the west, Benin to Benin–Togo border, the east and Burkina Faso to Burkina Faso–Togo border, the north. It is one of the least developed countries and extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its capital city, capital, Lomé, is located. It is a small, tropical country, spanning with a population of approximately 8 million, and it has a width of less than between Ghana and its eastern neighbour Benin. Various peoples settled the boundaries of present-day Togo between the 11th and 16th centuries. Between the 16th and 18th centuries, the coastal region served primarily as a Atlantic slave trade, European slave trading outpost, earning Togo and the surrounding region the name "The Slave Coast of West Africa, Slave Coast". In 1884, during the scramble for Africa, German Empire, Germany established a protectorate in the region called Togoland. After World War I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cocoa Bean
The cocoa bean, also known as cocoa () or cacao (), is the dried and fully fermented seed of ''Theobroma cacao'', the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted. Cacao trees are native to the Amazon rainforest. They are the basis of chocolate and Mesoamerican foods including tejate, an indigenous Mexican drink. The cacao tree was first domesticated at least 5,300 years ago by the Mayo-Chinchipe culture in South America before it was introduced in Mesoamerica. Cacao was consumed by pre-Hispanic cultures in spiritual ceremonies, and its beans were a common currency in Mesoamerica. The cacao tree grows in a limited geographical zone; today, West Africa produces nearly 81% of the world's crop. The three main varieties of cocoa plants are Forastero, Criollo, and Trinitario, with Forastero being the most widely used. In 2024, global cocoa bean production reached 5.8 million tonnes, with Ivory Coast leading a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterfall
A waterfall is any point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. Waterfalls can be formed in several ways, but the most common method of formation is that a river courses over a top layer of resistant bedrock before falling onto softer rock, which erodes faster, leading to an increasingly high fall. Waterfalls have been studied for their impact on species living in and around them. Humans have had a distinct relationship with waterfalls since prehistory, travelling to see them, exploring and naming them. They can present formidable barriers to navigation along rivers. Waterfalls are religious sites in many cultures. Since the 18th century, they have received increased attention as tourist destinations, sources of hydropower, andparticularly since the mid-20th centuryas subjects of research. Definition and terminology A waterfal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dry Season
The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics. The weather in the tropics is dominated by the tropical rain belt, which moves from the northern to the southern tropics and back over the course of the year. The temperate counterpart to the tropical dry season is summer or winter. Rain belt The tropical rain belt lies in the southern hemisphere roughly from November to March; during that time the northern tropics have a dry season with sparser precipitation, and days are typically sunny throughout. From May to September, the rain belt lies in the northern hemisphere, and the southern tropics have their dry season. Under the Köppen climate classification, for tropical climates, a dry season month is defined as a month when average precipitation is below . The rain belt reaches roughly as far north as the Tropic of Cancer and as far south as the Tropic of Capricorn. Near these latitudes, there is one wet season and one dry season annually. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rain
Rain is a form of precipitation where water drop (liquid), droplets that have condensation, condensed from Water vapor#In Earth's atmosphere, atmospheric water vapor fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the Earth. It provides water for hydroelectricity, hydroelectric power plants, crop irrigation, and suitable conditions for many types of ecosystems. The major cause of rain production is moisture moving along three-dimensional zones of temperature and moisture contrasts known as weather fronts. If enough moisture and upward motion is present, precipitation falls from convection, convective clouds (those with strong upward vertical motion) such as cumulonimbus (thunder clouds) which can organize into narrow rainbands. In mountainous areas, heavy precipitation is possible where upslope flow is maximized within windward sides of the terrain at elevation which forces moist air to condense and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewe People
The Ewe people (; , lit. "Ewe people"; or ''Mono Kple Amu (Volta) Tɔ́sisiwo Dome'', lit. "Between the Rivers Mono and Volta"; ''Eʋenyígbá'' Eweland) are a Gbe languages, Gbe-speaking ethnic group. The largest population of Ewe people is in Ghana (6.0 million), and the second largest population is in Togo (3.1 million). They speak the Ewe language () which belongs to the Gbe languages, Gbe family of languages. They are related to other speakers of Gbe languages such as the Fon people, Fon, Gen language, Gen, Phla–Pherá languages, Phla/Phera, Ogu people, Ogu/Gun, Fon language, Maxi (Mahi), and the Aja people of Togo and Benin. Demographics Ewe people are located primarily in the coastal regions of West Africa: in the region south and east of the Volta River to around the Mono River at the border of Togo and Benin; and in the southwestern part of Nigeria (close to the Atlantic Ocean, stretching from the Nigeria and Benin border to Epe). They are primarily found in the Volta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
