Mim Lake
Artificial reservoir in Ghana From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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  Mim Lake | |
| Location | Mim in Ahafo Region, Ghana. |
| Coordinates | 6.91886°N 2.55275°W |
| 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 at 6.91873°N 2.55269°W 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.
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 6.9105600°N 2.5605000°W, 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]
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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