Tano River
The Tano or Tanoé River (French: Rivière Tano) is a river in Ghana. It flows for 400 kilometres from a town called Traa, a suburb of Techiman, the capital town of Bono East Region in the Republic of Ghana to Ehy Lagoon, Tendo Lagoon and finally Aby Lagoon in Ivory Coast where it enters the Atlantic Ocean. The river Tano forms the last few kilometres of the international land boundary between Ghana and Ivory Coast.<ref name=":0">Template:Usurped. Water Resources Commission of Ghana.</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Indigenous local beliefs of Bono holds that, Taakora, the highest of the Bono gods on Earth, lives at the source of the river.<ref>Tano River Template:Webarchive. patachu.com.</ref>
The last few individuals of Miss Waldron's Red Colobus (Piliocolobus badius waldronae), one of the world's most threatened primates, are believed to live in the forest between the river and Ehy Lagoon.<ref>McGraw (2005)</ref> As of mid-2008, this area is slated for logging by Unilever, with the aim to replace it with oil palm plantations.<ref>Wolzer (2008)</ref><ref name=":0" />
In January of 2020, a truck with loads of sulfuric acid plunged into the Tano river. On January 13 the people were advised not to drink the water because of contamination. The river has since been restored to its natural state.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
- Tano River
- Drying up of the Tano River
- Human Activities Dries up Tano River
- Tanoso Residents do not eat fish in the Tano River
Footnotes
References
- Template:Aut (2005): Update on the Search for Miss Waldron's Red Colobus Monkey. International Journal of Primatology 26(3): 605–619. Template:Doi (HTML abstract)
- Template:Aut (2008): Tanoé Swamps Forest destruction by UnileverTemplate:Dead link. Version of 2008-MAY-28. Retrieved 2008-JUN-24.