**Kpando Torkor is a fishing and market town in the Kpando Municipality of the Volta Region, sitting on the western shore of Lake Volta — the "port" half of Kpando, and the twin town to Kpando (Kpando-Agbena) proper.** The name tells the story: *Torkor* means "harbour" or "landing place" in Ewe, and that is exactly what it is — the lakeside settlement where the Kpando people have launched canoes and landed fish for generations. Kpando itself sits on higher ground a few kilometres inland, while Torkor hugs the water. The two are usually spoken of together as Kpando, but they are distinct communities with their own feel: Kpando-Agbena is the commercial and administrative heart, Torkor is the waterfront, the fish, the canoes and the lake breeze. Economically, Torkor lives off the lake. It is one of the Volta Region's notable fishing landings, known for fresh and smoked fish — tilapia, catfish, and the small *one-man-thousand* and sardine-like catches that women smoke and carry to markets in Kpando, Hohoe, Ho and beyond. The smoked-fish trade is largely women's work and is the economic spine of the town. There is also a busy lakeside market and ferry/canoe transport linking Torkor to communities across the water and toward the Afram Plains side of the lake. Culturally, Kpando Torkor falls under the paramountcy of the **Fia (king) of Kpando**, one of the respected traditional stools of the Volta Region, and the area is Ewe-speaking with strong ties to the Kpando Traditional Area's festivals — notably **Kpando's Agbekoza** (yam festival) and the communal *borborbor* and *agbadza* traditions that mark any gathering on the lakeshore. The people are known for their hospitality and their deep attachment to the lake, which they treat as both livelihood and inheritance. Practically, if you are travelling there: Kpando Torkor is reached from Kpando town by a short road down to the shore, and Kpando itself sits on the Ho–Hohoe stretch of the Eastern Corridor, roughly an hour from Ho and about three hours from Accra via the Volta Lake road. The lake views at dawn, when the canoes come in, are among the finest in the Volta Region. As the Ewe say, *"Tsiami nyui nye ame si tsɔa ame ɖo ŋgɔ"* — a good guide is one who goes ahead of others. If you want, I can go deeper on Kpando's traditional history, the Agbekoza festival, or the fishing economy of the Volta Lake.