The Tano or Tanoé River ( French: ''Rivière Tano'') is a

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

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, the capital town of Bono East Region of the Republic of

to Ehy Lagoon, Tendo Lagoon and finally Aby Lagoon in

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where it enters the

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

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

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

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, with the aim to replace it with

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s. In January of 2020, a truck with loads of sulfuric 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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