Butre
Butre is a village in the Ahanta West district, district in the Western Region of Ghana. Butre contains the Fort Batenstein Castle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Western Region, Ghana
- Also known as: “Bootry”, “Boutrie”, “Boutry”, “Butre, Ghana”, and “Butri”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Batenstein.
Fort Batenstein
Photo: Macabe5387, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Batenstein was a fort and trading post established by the Dutch on the Gold Coast in 1656. It was situated near Butre. The fort was ceded with the entire Dutch Gold Coast to Britain in 1872.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Busua and Dixcove.
Busua
Photo: Tom Lubbe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Busua is a beach resort and fishing village in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region in Ghana, about 30 kilometers west of the regional capital, Sekondi-Takoradi in the Gulf of Guinea.
Dixcove
Town
Dixcove is a coastal village and a fishing community in the Ahanta West district, a district in the Western Region of South Ghana, located approximately 35 km west of the regional capital of Sekondi-Takoradi. Dixcove is situated 4½ km southwest of Butre.
Agona Nkwanta
Town
Agona Nkwanta is the capital of Ahanta West District in Ghana. Agona Nkwanta is situated 9 km northwest of Butre.
Butre
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Ahanta West Municipal District, Western Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
4.82294° or 4° 49′ 23″ northLongitude
-1.91694° or 1° 55′ 1″ westElevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
6CPWR3FM+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 2145887474OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Russian—“Butre” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Butre”
- Chinese: “布特雷”
- Dutch: “Butre”
- French: “Butre”
- Hausa: “Butre, Ghana”
- Hausa: “Butre”
- Hebrew: “בוטרה”
- Irish: “Butre”
- Russian: “Бутре”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Butre”. Photo: Macabe5387, CC BY-SA 4.0.