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.
Indigenous local beliefs of Bono holds that, Taakora, the highest of the Bono gods on Earth, lives at the source of the river.
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. As of mid-2008, this area is slated for logging by Unilever, with the aim to replace it with oil palm plantations.
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
- (2005): Update on the Search for Miss Waldron's Red Colobus Monkey. International Journal of Primatology 26(3): 605–619. <small></small> (HTML abstract)
- (2008): Tanoé Swamps Forest destruction by Unilever. 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 -->