Akwatia is a town in
Denkyembour
Upper West Akim District is one of the thirty-three districts in Eastern Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Kwaebibirem District in 1988, which was created from the former West Akim District Council. However on 6 F ...
, a district in the
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of south
Ghana
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and west of the
Atewa Range in the
Birim River basin. Akwatia has a 2013
settlement
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population of 23,766 people.
Akwatia is the main center of
diamond
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extraction in Ghana. The town is the center of the Denkyembour parliamentary constituency.
Facilities
Education
Schools include St. Rose's´High School and Akwatia Technical Institute. The local football club is the Akwatia Diamond Stars.
Healthcare
Akwatia can boast of two hospitals, The Saint Dominic's Hospital and The Ghanaian Consolidated Diamonds Company Hospital (G.C.D Hospital).
The Saint Dominic's Hospital in Akwatia is a 320-bed facility, and well-equipped and the hospital opened an Eye Clinic in 2003.
Diamond mining
The Akwatia diamond field lies in
Birimian rocks and has produced more than a of diamonds, mostly industrial grade. The Ghana government-owned Ghana Consolidated Diamonds (GCD) is the only formal commercial producer of diamonds, using strip mining with
Manitowoc draglines.
Large additional resources of
diamond
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s have been identified in the nearby Birim River deposits, including an altered
meta-lamproite that may represent a primary
diamond
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source.
References
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Populated places in the Eastern Region (Ghana)