Navrongo

Navrongo is a town and the capital of the Kassena-Nankana Municipal District in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana, next to the border with Burkina Faso. It is an important market town known for its cathedral and its grotto, and it houses the Navrongo Solar Power Station, Ghana's first solar plant. The town is said to have been founded around 1740 by Butu, a Nankane-speaking hunter from Zecco in what is now southern Burkina Faso, and in the nineteenth century it became a staging post on the Sahel caravan route. The White Fathers set up a Catholic mission in 1906, and its English-only school was judged by a British official in 1927 to be the best of only five in northern Ghana. The population was estimated at 27,306 in 2012. The terrain is flat Sahel grassland, and the climate is tropical savanna; on 26 March 2017 the town recorded 43.8 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature ever recorded in Ghana.