The Tano or Tanoé River is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

. It flows for 400 kilometres from a town called Traa a suburb of

Techiman Techiman is a city and is the capital of Techiman Municipal and Bono East Region of Ghana. Techiman is a leading market town in South Ghana. Techiman is one of the two major cities and settlements of Bono East region. Techiman is home to W ...

the capital town of Bono East Region of the Republic of

to Ehy Lagoon, Tendo Lagoon and finally Aby Lagoon in

Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...

where it enters the

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

. The river forms the last few kilometres of the international land boundary between Ghana and Ivory Coast.Tano Basin
. ''Water Resources Commission of Ghana''. Indigious local beliefs of

Bono Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), known by his stage name Bono (), is an Irish singer-songwriter, activist, and philanthropist. He is the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band U2. Born and raised in Dublin, he attended M ...

hold that Taakora, the highest of the

gods on Earth lives at the source of the river. The last few individuals of

Miss Waldron's Red Colobus Miss Waldron's red colobus (''Piliocolobus waldronae'') is a species of the red colobus native to West Africa. It had previously been described as a subspecies of the western red colobus, ''P. badius''. It has not been officially sighted since ...

(''Piliocolobus badius waldronae''), one of the world's most threatened

primate Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including huma ...

s, are believed to live in the forest between the river and Ehy Lagoon. As of mid-2008, this area is slated for

logging Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport. It may include skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars. Logging is the beginning of a supply chain ...

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, with the aim to replace it with

oil palm ''Elaeis'' () is a genus of palms containing two species, called oil palms. They are used in commercial agriculture in the production of palm oil. The African oil palm ''Elaeis guineensis'' (the species name ''guineensis'' referring to its co ...

plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...

s. In January of 2020, a truck with loads of sulphuric acid plunged into the Tano river. On January 13 the people were advised to not drink the water because of contamination. The river has since been restored to its natural state.

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* (2005): Update on the Search for Miss Waldron's Red Colobus Monkey. ''International Journal of Primatology'' 26(3): 605–619. (HTML abstract) * (2008)
Tanoé Swamps Forest destruction by Unilever
Version of 2008-MAY-28. Retrieved 2008-JUN-24. Rivers of Ivory Coast Rivers of Ghana International rivers of Africa Ghana–Ivory Coast border Border rivers {{IvoryCoast-river-stub

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