Volta River
Black, Red and White Volta and the united river. Yellow: the borders of Burkina Faso ( above), Ghana and Togo.
The Volta south of the Akosombo Dam. Adomi Bridge
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The Volta is a river in West Africa. Together with the Black Volta as a key source of the Volta River has a length of 1500 km.
After the river the former French colony of Upper Volta was named, today's Burkina Faso. The flag of Upper Volta was referring to the Volta.
Headwaters
The Volta has three source rivers which Black Volta ( Mouhoun ), Red Volta ( Nazinon ) and White Volta ( Nakambé ) are called.
Black Volta
The Black Volta or Mouhoun rises in the west of Burkina Faso, in the nature reserve classée Forêt de la Source du Mouhoun between Orodara and Banfora, and has a length of 1352 km. A part of the boundary between Ghana and Ivory Coast and Ghana and Burkina Faso is formed by the Black Volta.
Tributaries of the Black Volta: Sourou, Grand balé, Bougouriba, Poni
White Volta
The White Volta or Nakambé originates in Burkina Faso, east of Ouahigouya. In the south, Burkina Faso, near Zabre he is dammed to bagre reservoir. It flows into Lake Volta in Ghana.
Tributaries of the White Volta: Pendjari / Oti, Massili
Red Volta
The Red Volta or Nazinon has its origin near Ouagadougou and flows south to Ghana, where he from the right opens into the White Volta after about 320 km.
Tributary of the Red Volta: Sissili
Main river
The resulting from the union of its three source rivers near the big commercial city Salaga in Ghana river is dammed at Akosombo Dam on the Volta Lake and then flows to the southeast. It flows right the lagoon of Ada forming, left connected to the lagoon of Keta, a large bar with strong surf ( Kalema ) in the Gulf of Guinea.
After this surf called him the first Portuguese Rio Volta, "jumping the river". Came the enormous breakers on the shoals of his mouth earlier ( ie before the construction of the Akosombo Dam in the 1960s ) seasonally variable, on the interaction with tidal currents and winds. The tide on the seashore had a time to approximately the height of Malfi from, which is located about 36 km from the mouth upstream.
As Nile and Niger, as well as the Volta in the past had its annual floodplain, leaving behind fertile soil. Particularly, the area of the lowest river course was formerly above all a center of salt production.
Tributaries: Daka, Pru, Afram
Hydrometrie
The flow rate of the Volta was over 43 years ( 1936-1979 ) about 110 kilometers upstream measured in Senchi from the mouth ( in m³ / s).
Gallery
Customs post at Chease on Volta 1910
Nakambé ( White Volta ) east of Ouagadougou
Boat on the Volta
The Volta Lake
Overlooking the Nazinon ( Red Volta ) in Kaboré - Tambi National Park
Mouhoun ( Black Volta ) near Dédougou