{"id":20711,"date":"2017-03-27T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=20711"},"modified":"2017-03-27T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:00:07","slug":"geography-what-is-the-dahomey-gap-aka-togo-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-what-is-the-dahomey-gap-aka-togo-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography:  what is the Dahomey Gap (aka Togo Gap)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring geography, you notice features on maps.<\/h1>\n<p>Apparently, the Dahomey Gap, possibly aka the Togo Gap, is a strip of dry woodland that runs north from the coast of Benin, Togo, and eastern Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The Gap divides the equatorial rainforest of west Africa into two distinct regions.  While no tall mountains surround it, uplands do, which may explain its local dryness.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu\/map-three\/\">msu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dahomey_Gap\">wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Shea, Mark.  <u>Venomous Snakes of the World<\/u>.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring geography, you notice features on maps. Apparently, the Dahomey Gap, possibly aka the Togo Gap, is a strip of dry woodland that runs north from the coast of Benin, Togo, and eastern Ghana. The Gap divides the equatorial rainforest &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-what-is-the-dahomey-gap-aka-togo-gap\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geography:  what is the Dahomey Gap (aka Togo Gap)?<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2201,2199,2198,2200],"class_list":["post-20711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","tag-africa","tag-dahomey-gap","tag-togo-gap","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20715,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711\/revisions\/20715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}