Aboabo River (Kumasi)

The Aboabo River is an urban river in Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It forms part of the drainage network of the Kumasi Metropolitan Area and flows through densely settled parts of the city. The river rises around Tafo-Pankrono in northern Kumasi and flows southwards to meet the Sisan River at Asokwa. The river is one of Kumasi's important urban watercourses because of its role in stormwater drainage and its location within a heavily built-up catchment. Academic and disaster-risk studies have examined the river in relation to water pollution, land-use pressure and annual flooding in the Kumasi metropolis.

The Aboabo River originates from the Tafo-Pankrono area in the northern part of Kumasi and flows southwards through the city. A disaster-risk profile prepared for UNDP Ghana described the river as joining the Sisan River at Asokwa. The same report identified the Owusu Ansa and Dichemso streams as major tributaries of the Aboabo River. The river has a reported length of about 6.05 km. The UNDP Ghana risk profile reported that the channel is about 2.5 metres wide upstream and about 30.5 metres wide downstream, with an average flow speed of 0.87 m/s. Settlements identified within the river basin include Pankrono, Moshie Zongo, Buokrom, New Tafo, Dichemso, Aboabo, Anloga, Amakom, Manhyia, Asokwa and Atonsu. The Aboabo basin is one of the main drainage basins of Kumasi. A disaster-risk report on Kumasi identified four main drainage basins in the city: the Subin, Aboabo, Sisan and Wiwi basins. These basins drain northern and central parts of Kumasi and are affected by the city's rapid infrastructure development and drainage constraints.

Flows through: Ghana.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.