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Panorama and landscape view of Lake Volta in the Volta Basin; the largest lake and reservoir by surface area in the world. Lake Volta contains an array of fungi species and flows into the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. Lake Volta has three main tributaries: the Black Volta; the White Volta and the Red Volta.
Lake Volta, the largest artificial reservoir in the world based on surface area, is contained behind the Akosombo Dam which generates a substantial amount of Ghana's electricity. It is completely within the country of Ghana and has a surface area of 8,502 square kilometres (3,283 sq mi). [1] It extends from Akosombo in the south to the northern ...
Antelope species are also found in the park. There are also manatees and African clawless otters in the arms of Lake Volta that extend into Digya National Park. More than 236 species of birds live in the park. [2] This park is the only wildlife territory in Ghana to border on Lake Volta, the largest man-made body of water in the world. [2] [7]
Lake Volta is a reservoir impounded by the Akosombo Dam on the lower Volta River in southern Ghana. It is one of the largest reservoirs in the world. It extends from the Akosombo Dam in southeastern Ghana to the town of Yapei in the Central Gonja District, Northern Region of Ghana, some 400 kilometres (250 mi) to the north.
Mouth. (Is home to many forms of wildlife that are unique to this part of the world) The Black Volta or Mouhoun[1] is a river that flows through Burkina Faso for approximately 1,352 km (840 mi) to the White Volta in Dagbon, Ghana, the upper end of Lake Volta. [2] The source of the Black Volta is in the Cascades Region of Burkina Faso, close to ...
The African Great Lakes (Swahili: Maziwa Makuu; Kinyarwanda: Ibiyaga bigari) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift. The series includes Lake Victoria, the second-largest freshwater lake in the world by area; Lake Tanganyika, the world's second-largest freshwater lake by volume ...
List of reptiles of Ghana. This is a list of the reptile species recorded in Ghana. There are 154 reptile species in Ghana, of which one is critically endangered, one is endangered, two are vulnerable and two are near threatened. This list is derived from the Reptile Database which lists species of reptile and includes those reptiles that have ...
Ghana. Ghana is a West African country in Africa, along the Gulf of Guinea. Ghana encompasses plains, low hills, rivers, Lake Volta, the world's largest artificial lake, Dodi Island and Bobowasi Island on the south Atlantic Ocean coast of Ghana. Ghana can be divided into four different geographical ecoregions.