Atimpoku

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| settlement_type = Town

| image_skyline = Adomi Bridge.jpg

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| image_caption = Adomi Bridge crossing the Volta River in Atimpoku, Eastern Region, Ghana

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| subdivision_type1 = Region

| subdivision_name1 = Eastern Region

| subdivision_type2 = District

| subdivision_name2 = Asuogyaman District

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| elevation_m = 12

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Atimpoku is a small town in the Eastern Region of Ghana and located along the Volta River. It is the capital of the Asuogyaman District, a district in the Eastern Region of Ghana.{{Cite web |url=http://asuogyaman.ghanadistricts.gov.gh/?arrow=dnf&_=67 |title=Asuogyaman District |access-date=2012-12-26 |archive-date=2022-11-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128165614/http://asuogyaman.ghanadistricts.gov.gh/?arrow=dnf&_=67 |url-status=dead }}

Geography

The town of Atimpoku is located on the banks of the Volta River, which drains south to the Gulf of Guinea, and is the location of the Adomi Bridge (originally the Volta Bridge), Ghana's longest suspension bridge and the first permanent bridge to span the Volta River.{{cite web |last1=Scott |first1=Peter Adamson |last2=Roberts |first2=Gilbert |title=The Volta Bridge |url=https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/iicep.1958.2304 |website=Institute of Civil Engineers Virtual Library |publisher=Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, E-ISSN 1753-7789, Volume 9, Issue 4, April 1958, pp. 395-432 |access-date=2 August 2020}}{{Cite web |date=15 April 2023 |title=Danger on Adomi Bridge as portions of road develop pothole |url=https://www.modernghana.com/news/1224620/danger-on-adomi-bridge-as-portions-of-road-develop.html |access-date=27 November 2023 |website=Modern Ghana}} The town is about 2.5 miles downstream from Lake Volta and the Akosombo Dam, a hydroelectric facility which supplies electricity to Ghana and an electricity exporter to neighboring countries of Ghana.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-21 |title=Dead male body found floating on the Volta Lake at Atimpoku |url=https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Dead-male-body-found-floating-on-the-Volta-Lake-at-Atimpoku-1884626 |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=GhanaWeb |language=en}}

Atimpoku is about {{convert|87|km|abbr=on}} northeast of Accra, the capital of Ghana, and about {{convert|75|km|abbr=on}} north of the port of Tema{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}.

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20110726105919/http://www.ghana-pedia.org/org/index.php?option=com_directory&listing=Atimpoku&page=viewListing&lid=232&Itemid=36 Ghana-pedia webpage - Atimpoku]
{{Cite web|url=https://www.accuweather.com/en/gh/akwamu-atimpoku/902089/satellite/902089|title=Atimpoku, Ghana Enhanced Weather Satellite Map - AccuWeather.com|website=AccuWeather|access-date=2017-12-05}}

Category:Populated places in the Eastern Region (Ghana)