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The mountain's name is \"Afadja,\" while the suffix \"-to\" in the Ewe language means mountain. The correct name in the English language, therefore, would be \"Mount Afadja\", not \"Mount Afadjato\", which would be a repetition of the word \"mountain\".
When the Ewe people migrated to the area, wild animals have been attacking them and sometimes killing their babies so the people decided fight back and during the war between animals and the people, the animal were running away and the people chase them, they came across a itching plant which prevented them from getting to the mountain to battle the animals since they are not in clothes. The people couldn't bypass the itching plant so they return home to narrate the story. Afar in the Ewe language means war, Dja means plant and To means mountain. Moreover, there were some creeping plants on the mountain that resembled the water yam plant; they therefore called it \"Avadze-to\". Today the word has been palatalized into \"Afadjato\".
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By elevation Mount Afadja is
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