Huni Valley
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Huni Valley | |
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  Huni Valley | |
| Coordinates: 05°28′14″N 01°55′01″W / 5.47056°N 1.91694°W | |
| Country |  Ghana |
| Region | Western Region |
| District | Prestea-Huni Valley District |
| Time zone | GMT |
| • Summer (DST) | GMT |
Huni Valley formerly known as Tinkwakrom is a small town in the Prestea-Huni Valley District of the Western Region in west central Ghana. It is one of the Wassa groups and a divisional arm to the Wassa Fiase people. They are the Bosomtwi traditional group and led by Nana Kwabena Amponsah IV.
Notable for being one of the mysterious towns in Ghana that have no dogs in the whole area. It is believed that the earliest inhabitants in the area had to ban dogs from the area because the dogs were too dangerous and the gods of the lands were angry that the dogs were killing their people.
Huni Valley and Kotoku were the only two main junctions in the Ghana Railroad Company. Huni Valley was connecting 3 major cities; Accra, Kumasi and Takoradi.
Transport
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[edit]Huni Valley is a junction on the west line for a cross country line to the east line.[1]
Huni Valley is also the site of a concrete sleeper plant, which was built in 2008 to provide sleepers for the upgrade and extension of the west line to Hamile near the Ghana and 
Burkina Faso border.[1]
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