Created in 1971 with an area of 3,478 sq. km, Digya is located on a lowland peninsula west of the central shores of the Volta Lake. The vegetation of the Park is largely savannah woodland and gallery forest along the riverbanks. Mammals include elephant, buffalo, water buck, hartebeest, bush pig, baboons and five other species of monkeys. Crocodiles and the clawless otter are also found here. Digya is the historical home of two currently extinct large mammals,: the black rhinoceros, locally known as the "naree", and the gregarious wildebeest, locally called the"gnoo" (gnu) the manatee omit pr sea cow is the Park’s emblem.
