Zongoiri Natinga is a community in the Bawku West District of the

Upper East Region The Upper East Region is located in north Ghana and is the third smallest of the 16 administrative regions in Ghana. It occupies a total land surface of 8,842 square kilometers or 2.7 per cent of the total land area of Ghana. The Upper East regi ...

of Ghana, to the northwest of a bend in the

White Volta River The White Volta or Nakambé is the headstream of the Volta River, Ghana's main waterway. The White Volta emerges in northern Burkina Faso, flows through North Ghana and empties into Lake Volta in Ghana. The White Volta's main tributaries are the ...

. The chiefdom of Zongoiri lies below the Gambaga Escarpment, bordered to the south by the

and to the west by the Red Volta River. The Zongoiri Waterfall at Kianga on the White Volta is a local tourist attraction. Zongoiri is home to sacred groves and to a water source that is believed to heal or prevent guinea worm infestation. Zongoiri was the place of refuge of

Wobogo Wobogo (died 1904) was the Mogho Naba (ruler) of Ouagadougou from 1890 to 1897, at the time of the French colonial conquest of French Upper Volta, Upper Volta. Wobogu was originally called Boukary Koutou, but dropped those names on his accession an ...

, last independent

Mogho Naba The ''mogho naba'' of Wogodogo is the ruler ("king of the world") of Wogodogo, one of the Mossi Kingdoms located in present-day Burkina Faso. The kingdom takes its name from its historic capital, now the Burkinabe national capital of Ouagadougou. ...

of Mossi and ruler of Ouagadougou, who fled to Zongoiri in 1898 and died here in 1904.

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{{reflist Populated places in the Upper East Region