Buipe, sometimes called New Buipe, is a town and the capital of

Central Gonja District Central Gonja District is one of the seven districts in Savannah Region, Ghana. The Black Volta forms the southern boundary of Central Gonja with Kintampo North District, and the White Volta The White Volta or Nakambé ( French: ''Volta blanch ...

, in the

Savannah Region The Savannah Region is one of the newest regions of Ghana and yet the largest region in the country. The creation of the Region follows presentation of a petition by the Gonja Traditional Council, led by the Yagbonwura Tumtumba Boresa Jakpa I ...

of northern

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 ...

History

New Buipe was founded in the 1950s when the population of

Old Buipe Old Buipe is a small town and archaeological site in the Central Gonja District, in the Savannah Region of northern Ghana. Buipe was an important regional center and market for kola nuts in the 15th century, before Sumaila Ndewura Jakpa founded ...

moved east to the site of a new bridge and highway. Buipe had been an important political and religious center of the

Gonja kingdom Gonja was a kingdom in present-day northern Ghana founded in 1675 by Sumaila Ndewura Jakpa. With the fall of the Songhai Empire (c. 1600), the Mande Ngbanya clan moved south, crossing the Black Volta and founding their capital city at Yagbum ...

since the 16th century. Because of the proximity of

limestone Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

deposits, Buipe is the proposed location of cement works. The

Black Volta The Black Volta or Mouhoun ( French: ''Volta noire'') 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. It is one of the three main parts ...

, one of the most important rivers in the country passes through the town, making Buipe one of the leading market centres in the northern part of Ghana.

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Central Gonja District
{{Ghana district capitals Populated places in the Savannah Region (Ghana)