Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelled Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people, the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin. Their description of the area when looked at from afar: "Mara" means "spotted" in the local Maasai language, because of the short bushy trees which dot the landscape.
Maasai Mara is one of the wildlife conservation and wilderness areas in Africa, with its populations of lion, leopard, cheetah and African bush elephant. It also hosts the Great Migration, which secured it as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa, and as one of the ten Wonders of the World.
The Greater Mara ecosystem encompasses areas known as the Maasai Mara National Reserve, the Mara Triangle, and several Maasai Conservancies, including Koiyaki, Lemek, Ol Chorro Oirowua, Mara North, Olkinyei, Siana, Maji Moto, Naikara, Ol Derkesi, Kerinkani, Oloirien, and Kimintet.
^Protected Planet (2018). "Masai Mara". United Nations Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Archived from the original on 2 January 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
MaasaiMara, also sometimes spelled Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with...
MaasaiMara University (MMU), (formerly Narok University College Moi University Narok Town Campus), is a public university in Kenya. MMU is located in...
across the migration path of ungulates in the MaasaiMara/Serengeti ecosystem.[citation needed] The Mara River basin covers a surface of 13,504 km2, of...
The Mara Triangle is the southwestern part of the MaasaiMara National Reserve, Kenya, and is managed by the not-for-profit organisation The Mara Conservancy...
reserves and national parks: Amboseli National Park, Nairobi National Park, MaasaiMara, Samburu National Reserve, Lake Nakuru National Park and Tsavo in Kenya;...
To the east and north of the MaasaiMara National Reserve, some of the former Maasai cattle-grazing areas have been converted into wildlife conservancies...
Serengeti National Park, and the area comprising the two parks and Kenya's MaasaiMara game reserve is home to Great Migration, a massive annual migration of...
pass through the Western Corridor. To get to the MaasaiMara, the herds have to cross the Grumeti and Mara Rivers, where around 3,000 crocodiles lie in wait...
agriculture, trade, and some level of tourism due to its proximity to MaasaiMara. Farming, especially maize and bean cultivation, plays a significant...
and MaasaiMara. One study stated that the mean weight of male kills was 744 g (1.640 lb) and that of females was 1.375 kg (3.03 lb). In MaasaiMara, the...
Angama Mara is a safari lodge in the MaasaiMara in Kenya. In the Kiswahili language, "angama" means "suspended in mid-air"; the name refers to the lodge's...
is a notable feature of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, the MaasaiMara National Reserve in Kenya and the Liuwa Plain National Park in Zambia...
roles. The film is the first Kannada project to have shot in Kenya's MaasaiMara National Reserve. The film marks the fourth collaboration of Ganesh and...
Mara Airport (IATA: ANA, ICAO: n/a) is a small airport near Angama Mara in Narok County, Kenya. The airport serves the local areas of the MaasaiMara...
K.; Wood, N.; Mathenge, S. G. (2006). "Plant use of the Maasai of Sekenani Valley, MaasaiMara, Kenya". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 2: 22...
Town is the last major town when travelling by road from Nairobi to MaasaiMara National Park and Keekorok Lodge. Narok Town stands as a centre for services...
About 250,000 wildebeest die during the journey from Tanzania to the MaasaiMara National Reserve in southwestern Kenya, a total of 800 kilometres (500 mi)...
2018-08-21. "MRE - MaasaiMara Game Reserve [Mara Serena], KE - Airport - Great Circle Mapper". www.gcmap.com. Retrieved 2018-11-09. Location of Mara Serena Airport...
Valley in Kenya, just north of the MaasaiMara. The plains and nearby Loita Hills have been the territory of the Maasai peoples since the 19th century and...
constituting a truly distinct subspecies. The original Serengeti and MaasaiMara population of painted dogs is known to have possessed a unique genotype...
conservation area in Kenya, part of the MaasaiMara-Serengeti ecosystem and wildlife dispersal zone. It borders the MaasaiMara National Reserve. It was founded...
travel business, taking people throughout the country to places like MaasaiMara and Mombasa, etc. During her tenure as the Second Lady of Kenya, she...
Park A wake of white-backed vultures eating a wildebeest carcass in MaasaiMara Flock of white-rumped vultures in India Head of a vulture chick, Iran...
Somalia. The cheetah inhabits mainly the Serengeti ecosystem, including MaasaiMara, and the Tsavo landscape. A cheetah from British East Africa was described...
del Paine National Park, Chile. The great wildebeest migration in the MaasaiMara, Kenya and Serengeti, Tanzania Amber Room in the Catherine Palace near...
land saved in Kenya. In the southern plains of the MaasaiMara National Reserve in Kenya, lives Mara, a six-month-old lion cub, with her mother Layla,...
Tanzania Close up of giraffe face in Masai MaraMaasai giraffe in the plain of MaasaiMara Male Maasai giraffe Maasai people Bolger, D.; Ogutu, J.; Strauss...
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