Abby Lagoon

The Abby Lagoon is a wetland in the Jomoro Municipality of Ghana's Western Region, listed by the Jomoro Municipal Assembly among the municipality's places of attraction and categorised there as both a lake and a nature site. It lies near Jaway Wharf, in the far south-western corner of Ghana close to the border with Côte d'Ivoire.

The Assembly describes Abby as a trans-boundary wetland important to both Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire because of its high productivity as a medium of transport and for fishing. It adds that the lagoon is widely believed to hold considerable stocks of the West African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis). Ghana Districts lists the Abby wetland among the district's pristine wetlands, alongside the Amansuri and Dormuli wetlands, and repeats the trans-boundary and manatee points.

The lagoon is part of a wider transboundary complex. Secondary literature describes the Abby–Tano lagoon complex as interconnected with the Ehy Lagoon in Côte d'Ivoire, with a larger part of the complex lying in Côte d'Ivoire, where it discharges into the sea. The same source gives approximate feature coordinates of 05°05'18.1"N, 002°56'42.8"W for the Abby Lagoon; these are lagoon feature coordinates, not a visitor entrance or wharf.

For a visitor, the honest position is that Abby is a working wetland rather than a developed visitor site. The district's wetlands are promoted for boating, sport fishing, nature watch — especially crocodile and bird watching — medicinal plant trails and industrial tourism such as alcohol distillation, but the available sources do not confirm which of these activities are currently offered at Abby Lagoon specifically. Manatee presence is described as widely believed rather than confirmed.

Practical planning details are limited. No verified visitor entrance, opening hours, fees, facilities or guided-tour arrangements are documented in the sources reviewed, and the coordinates above should not be treated as a meeting point. Anyone planning a visit should treat access, safety and current conditions as unconfirmed and seek local information in Jomoro before travelling.