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The Kenya Lakes System consists of three separate but geologically and ecologically related lakes. The lakes are; Lake Elementaita (6,300 ha), Lake Nakuru (18,800ha) and Lake Bogoria (10,700ha) all of which lie in basins on the floor of the Great Rift Valley which transects Kenya North-South. All the three lakes are shallow, alkaline and are.
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The Rift Valley's human story has powerfully influenced Kenya's history and the prehistoric site of Hyrax Hill on the outskirts of Nakuru town, shows evidence of ancient, Cushitic-speaking inhabitants. For at least the last 2,500 years, generations of migrants trekked into the Rift Valley from South Sudan's marshlands, from the Ethiopian.
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The Rift Valley Lakes of Kenya Pelicans at Lake Nakuru, Kenya. The East African Rift Valley hosts some of the world's largest and deepest lakes. The Kenyan section of this rift valley is home to eight lakes including three freshwater and five saline lakes.
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Overview. The Rift Valley travel experience for us starts with the most remote and sometimes hard-to-reach attractions of the North Rift circuit that are for the adventurous and for those seeking to explore Kenya at its most rugged. But they also appeal to visitors who are drawn by the area's lakes, hot springs and bird sanctuaries.
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Originally named the 'Great Rift Valley' by British Explorer John Walter Gregory, the Rift Valley is a geographic stretch extending 6000km across the Middle East and Africa from Jordan to Mozambique.
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The Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley , a natural property of outstanding beauty, comprises three inter-linked relatively shallow lakes (Lake Bogoria, Lake Nakuru and Lake Elementaita) in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya and covers a total area of 32,034 hectares.
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Kenya's Great Rift Valley offers some of the most breath-taking natural scenery in a diverse mix of dramatic escarpments, mountain highlands, indigenous forest, gorges, beautiful lakes and savannahs.
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Mai Mahiu-Narok road, in a region just west of Nairobi, Kenya, used to be fully intact. Then, after a period of heavy rainfall late last month, a massive crack was exposed. According to the local.
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Kenya's Rift Valley is only part of a continental fault system that runs 6000km across the Middle East and Africa from Jordan to Mozambique. Perhaps Kenya's most important topographical feature, it is certainly one of the country's great distinguishing marks, acting as a human and natural divide.
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The East African Rift Valley sits between the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia and Mozambique. Within it lie a series of freshwater and alkaline lakes organised like a string of pearls. The Kenyan lakes.
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Following a number of meteorological events, a huge fissure opened in the Great Rift Valley region of Kenya. The crack damaged roads, left people homeless, and, perhaps most significant of all.
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The Great Rift Valley is part of an intra-continental ridge system that runs through Kenya from north to south. It is part of the Gregory Rift, the eastern branch of the East African Rift, which starts in Tanzania to the south and continues northward into Ethiopia. [1]
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A new trail across Kenya's Great Rift Valley links mud-and-thatch villages, shimmering lakes, flocks of flamingos, wildlife galore and around 25 million years of geological history. Two marabou storks came wheeling overhead, wings like black sails; my eyes followed them until they became dots in the landscape. Mankind began here.
Una enorme grieta se ha abierto en el Valle del Rift de Kenia y parece que es solo el principio
The term Great Rift Valley is most often used to refer to the valley of the East African Rift, the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward through eastern Africa, and is in the process of splitting the African Plate into two new and separate plates.
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The human race chose the perfect spot to start out - the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, where hominid skeletons dating millions of years were first found. The Rift is a breath-taking natural environment that perfectly combines with some unforgettable wildlife activities. It is a section of the Gregory Rift that runs from Tanzania to Ethiopia.
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The Rift Valley floor encompasses the archetypal east African safari panorama of acacia-dotted savannah, studded with jewel-like lakes that are sometimes rimmed with huge flocks of pink flamingos. Together, lakes Nakuru, Elmenteita and Bogoria form the UNESCO natural heritage site known as the Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley.
