If you briefly visited Kokoado or especially Abonu Communities in the Bosumtwi – Atwima – Kwanwoma District of Ashanti, then hopefully, you are diligently, planning to go back for one thing which, probably, you did not have much time for, The Lake Bosumtwi.

 

Regarded as Sacred, Lake Bosumtwi is a unique natural phenomenon and one of the most preserved structures on earth with its original features still intact.

 

The lake and its surrounding communities including Kokoado and Abonu, offer an opportunity for eco-tourism and a natural scientific museum.

 

However, it appears that knowledge about the origin of the lake is very little known among Ghanaians and many tourists.

 

The origin of the Bosumtwi water has been a subject of discussion in the past among various scientists, but the results obtained from the systematic studies of geo-physical criteria led to the conclusion that the water originated from the impact of a meteorites – a rock or metal fragment formed from a meteor, a piece of rock from outer space that has earth’s surface.   

The meteorite impact theory had been supported by a large body of evidence including the discovery at the lake Bosumtwi site of the mineral coesite, a high pressure modification of quartz, by four American researchers in 1961.  

The formation of this mineral requires very high pressure and its temperature conditions cannot be generated by nuclear explosions, and therefore, the presence of this mineral at any site on earth is an indication for a meteorite impact.

 

Rock samples, popularly known as the Ivory Coast Tektites, which were discovered at a site in Ivory Coast, 250 Kilometres from Bosumtwi, have been proved to have been ejected from the Bosumtwi crater and these Ivory Tektites have the same age as well as similar isotopic and chemical compositions.