Mim Lake
Mim Lake
Location	Mim in Ahafo Region, Ghana.
Coordinates	6°55′08″N 2°33′10″W / 6.91886°N 2.55275°W / 6.91886; -2.55275
Type	Reservoir
Primary inflows	rainfall
Primary outflows	none
Catchment area	1.2 km2 (0.46 sq mi)
Basin countries	Ghana
Max. length	0.45 km (1,500 ft)
Max. width	0.15 km (490 ft)
Surface area	0.1 km2 (0.039 sq mi)
Average depth	3.1 m (10 ft)
Max. depth	4.8 m (16 ft)
Residence time	GMT
Surface elevation	220 m (720 ft)
Settlements	Mim, Ahafo

Mim lake, originally known as the Anwomasu Lake, is an Inland lake located on the outskirts of Mim in the Asunafo North Municipal District in the Ahafo Region of Ghana. The lake is a latent tourist site and has the potential of a lake side Resort. Revellers often visit it for leisure. ^[1][2][3]

Geography

Mim lake at 6°55′07″N 2°33′10″W / 6.91873°N 2.55269°W / 6.91873; -2.55269 lies off the Mim - kenyasi road, about 1 km (0.62 mi) northwards of the Mim township. The main communities around this lake are the Mim old-airport quarters, Asukese, and Nkensere.

History

This man-made lake is an expansion of the old Anwomasu river which was created initially as a dam for industrial and domestic purposes.

After decades of use, a relatively smaller dam was created near the Mim township at 6°54′38″N 2°33′38″W / 6.9105600°N 2.5605000°W / 6.9105600; -2.5605000, a few meters away from the Ayum Forest Products Ltd.

With the new dam serving both industrial and domestic purposes, the old dam with its diverse natural scenes, was turned into tourist attraction. The Lake has different species of flora and fauna. Among the fish species in the lake are the endemic cichlid hemichromis frempongi, and the near-endemic cichlids tilapia busumana and T. discolor.^[4]

Incidents

There have been a couple of separate incidents when two people, aged 57 and 31 years, on different occasions drowned in the lake.^[5][6][7]

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