Koutammakou
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How it came to be
Koutammakou stretches across northeastern Togo and northwestern Benin, mostly in the Atakora mountains. Its people, the Batammariba, take their name from a Ditammari word meaning those who shape the earth.
The Batammariba live in mud tower-houses called takienta, round or oval and often two storeys high. Some 1,716 are still lived in on the Togo side and 1,400 in Benin, and the house has become a national symbol of Togo.
The land holds caves, springs, sacred groves, fields and terraced hills, and major ceremonies and initiation festivals are still held. The Togolese part was inscribed in 2004, and in 2023 the boundaries were greatly enlarged to include Benin.
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