Akwatia is the capital of
Denkyembour
Denkyembour 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 Febr ...
, a district in the
Eastern region Eastern Region or East Region may refer to:
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of south
Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...
and west of the
Atewa Range in the
Birim River basin. Akwatia or Akortia also means "He returned here or there" In the indigenous language formerly known as Oji-Ounji now called Anii. Akwatia has a 2013
settlement
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*Human settlement, a community where people live
*Settlement (structural), downward movement of a structure's foundation
*Settlement (finance), where securities are delivered against payment of money
*Settlement (litigatio ...
population of 23,766 people.
Akwatia is the main center of
diamond
Diamond is a Allotropes of carbon, solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of e ...
extraction in Ghana. The town is the center of the Denkyembour parliamentary constituency.
Facilities
Education
* St. Rose's´High School
* Akwatia Technical Institute
Sports
Among the athletes hailing from this town are: Kabiru Moro,
Ekow Benson
Ekow Benson (born April 23, 1989, in Akwatia) is a Ghanaian football player, he is currently attached to Asante Kotoko F.C.
Career
Benson began his career for New Odona Schalke 04 and joined in 2004 to Fauzan FC. After two years for Fauzan, he ...
,
Emmanuel Boateng, Oppong Enoch Opare among others. Among the notable football clubs are the Akwatia Diamond Stars, Diamond Academy, Akwatia Vidaco Football Club, Akwatia Frankfurt Football Academy, Young Diamonds
and Deelorm Academy
Healthcare
Akwatia has two hospitals,
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 the hospital opened an Eye Clinic since 2003.
Diamond mining
The Akwatia diamond field lies in
Birimian
The Birimian rocks are major sources of gold and diamonds that extend through Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso. They are named after the Birim River, one of the main tributaries of the Pra River in Ghana and the country's mo ...
rocks and has produced over 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
Diamond is a Allotropes of carbon, solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of e ...
s have been identified in the nearby Birim River deposits, including an altered
meta-lamproite that may represent a primary
diamond
Diamond is a Allotropes of carbon, solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of e ...
source.
References
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Populated places in the Eastern Region (Ghana)