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The '''Tano''' or '''Tanoé River''' ([[French language|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 [[Ghana–Ivory Coast border|international land boundary]] between Ghana and Ivory Coast.<ref name=":0">{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140104033636/http://wrc-gh.org/en/basins/20/tano Tano Basin]}}. ''Water Resources Commission of Ghana''.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Asare‑Donkor |first=Noah Kyame |last2=Adimado |first2=Anthony Apeke |date=2016 |title=Influence of mining related activities on levels of mercury in water, sediment and fish from the Ankobra and Tano River basins in South Western Ghana |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/81847678.pdf |journal=Environmental Systems Research}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gbadamosi |first=Nosmot |date=28 January 2020 |title=Ghana's Bauxite Boom |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/28/china-investment-bauxite-mining-ghana-infrastructure/ |website=[[Foreign Policy]]}}</ref>

[[Traditional religion|Indigenous local beliefs]] of [[Bono people|Bono]] holds that, Taakora, the highest of the [[Bono people|Bono]] gods on Earth, lives at the source of the river.<ref>[http://patachu.com/tano-river/ Tano River] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216063641/http://patachu.com/tano-river/ |date=2013-02-16 }}. ''patachu.com''.</ref>

The last few individuals of [[Miss Waldron's red colobus|Miss Waldron's Red Colobus]] (''Piliocolobus badius waldronae''), one of the world's most threatened [[primate]]s, 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]] [[plantation]]s.<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>{{Cite web |title=Poisoned Tano River Restored – GWCL |url=https://www.modernghana.com/news/979917/poisoned-tano-river-restored-gwcl.html |website=Modern Ghana}}</ref>

==See also==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IB1GNP8Prw Tano River]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXCcgllSV5A Drying up of the Tano River]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6QKc0Mz2DA Human Activities Dries up Tano River]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQcfaRn9dbE&t=333s Tanoso Residents do not eat fish in the Tano River]

==Footnotes==
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==References==
* {{aut|McGraw, W. Scott}} (2005): Update on the Search for Miss Waldron's Red Colobus Monkey. ''International Journal of Primatology'' '''26'''(3): 605–619. <small>{{doi|10.1007/s10764-005-4368-9}}</small> (HTML abstract)
* {{aut|Wolzer, Chris}} (2008): [http://www.wildvet.at/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=193&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 Tanoé Swamps Forest destruction by Unilever]{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}. Version of 2008-MAY-28. Retrieved 2008-JUN-24.<!-- there are more detailed sources, but this seems to be the only English one that gets the taxonomy right... the most reliable sources at present would seem to be exclusively in French and German -->

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