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Amboseli National Park
IUCN category II (national park)
Map showing the location of Amboseli National Park
Map showing the location of Amboseli National Park
Location of Amboseli National Park
Map showing the location of Amboseli National Park
Map showing the location of Amboseli National Park
Location of Amboseli National Park within Kenya
LocationLoitoktok District, Kajiado County, Kenya
Nearest cityNairobi
Coordinates02°38′29″S 37°14′53″E / 2.64139°S 37.24806°E / -2.64139; 37.24806
Area392 km2 (151 sq mi)
Established
  • 1906; 118 years ago (1906); as a reserve
  • 1974; 50 years ago (1974); as a national park
Visitors120,000 estimated (in 2006)
Governing bodyKenya Wildlife Service, Olkejuado County Council and the Maasai community

Amboseli National Park, formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, is a national park in Loitoktok District in Kajiado County, Kenya.[1] It is 39,206 ha (392.06 km2) in size at the core of an 8,000 km2 (3,100 sq mi) ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya-Tanzania border.[2] The local people are mainly Maasai, but people from other parts of the country have settled there attracted by the successful tourist-driven economy and intensive agriculture along the system of swamps that makes this low-rainfall area, average 350 mm (14 in), one of the best wildlife-viewing experiences in the world with 400 species of birds including water birds like pelicans, kingfishers, crakes, hamerkop and 47 raptor species.[3]

The park protects two of the five main swamps and includes a dried-up Pleistocene lake and semiarid vegetation.

  1. ^ "County Government of Kajiado – Naboisho ang, engolon ang". Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  2. ^ "World Database on Protected Areas: Amboseli Nationalpark". sea.unep-wcmc.org. Retrieved 28 July 2008.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Amboseli National Park". Archived from the original on 3 September 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2011.

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