Global Information Lookup Global Information

Ngong Hills Forest Reserve information


Ngong Hills Forest Reserve
Map showing the location of Ngong Hills Forest Reserve
Map showing the location of Ngong Hills Forest Reserve
Location within Kenya
Nearest cityNairobi
Coordinates1°24′54.3″S 36°38′30.7″E / 1.415083°S 36.641861°E / -1.415083; 36.641861
Area21,105 square kilometres (8,149 sq mi)
Elevation2,483 meters (8,146 ft) ASL
Established1981; 43 years ago (1981)
(as a forest reserve)
Governing body
  • Kenya Wildlife Service
  • Kenya Forest Service

Ngong Hills Forest Reserve is the protected area of the larger Ngong Hills, Ngong, Kenya. The reserve is located on the southern tip of the Rift Valley region, 25 kilometres (16 mi) away from Kenya's capital, Nairobi. With the tallest peak standing at an altitude of 2,460 meters (8,070 ft) above sea level,[citation needed] it is the highest point in Ngong.[1]

  1. ^ Kenya Wildlife Service (2018). "Ngong Hills Forest Reserve". African Horizons. Retrieved 24 April 2024.

and 15 Related for: Ngong Hills Forest Reserve information

Request time (Page generated in 0.8121 seconds.)

Ngong Hills Forest Reserve

Last Update:

Ngong Hills Forest Reserve is the protected area of the larger Ngong Hills, Ngong, Kenya. The reserve is located on the southern tip of the Rift Valley...

Word Count : 304

Ngong Hills

Last Update:

The Ngong Hills are peaks in a ridge along the Great Rift Valley, located southwest near Nairobi, in southern Kenya. The word "Ngong" is an Anglicization...

Word Count : 547

Conservation in Hong Kong

Last Update:

developments in or near these sites are proposed. For example, San Chau and Ngong Ping at Lantau have been listed as SSSIs in recognition of the largest population...

Word Count : 2856

Elmenteita Badlands

Last Update:

The Elementeita Badlands, also known as the Otutu Forest or Ututu Forest, is a lava flow in Kenya that covers approximately 36 square kilometres (9,000...

Word Count : 491

Mantled guereza

Last Update:

on the Ngong Escarpment of Mount Kenya and in the Aberdare Range. Kilimanjaro guereza, C. g. caudatus, found in Tanzania and Kenya in the forests surrounding...

Word Count : 4428

Crowned eagle

Last Update:

KIWENGOMA FOREST RESERVE, MATUMBI HILLS, TANZANIA". In Annales Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. Sciences Zoologiques (Vol. 268). Willems, E. P. & Hill, R....

Word Count : 13314

Baringo Thermal Power Station

Last Update:

Longonot Mount Suswa Hills and escarpments Elgeyo Escarpment Mau Escarpment Nguruman Escarpment Losiolo Escarpment Aberdare Range Ngong Hills Loriu Plateau Lakes...

Word Count : 459

List of gondola lifts

Last Update:

Island - Ngong Ping 360, a 5.7 km cableway from MTR Tung Chung station to Ngong Ping Terminals near Po Lin Monastery. The cableway is part of the Ngong Ping...

Word Count : 3499

Mount Kenya

Last Update:

the olive tree of Morintat, let them grow and expand, let them be like Ngong Hills like Mt. Kenya, like Mt. Kilimanjaro and multiply in number. — Collected...

Word Count : 9123

Mawe Mbili

Last Update:

southern Kenya. The rock formation is located at the base of Scout Hat Hill, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of Lake Elmenteita and northwest of Nairobi...

Word Count : 264

List of Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance

Last Update:

Tapantí National Park, Los Quetzales National Park, Los Santos Forest Reserve, Vueltas Hill Biological Reserve, Macho River Forest Reserve) 192,520 475,700...

Word Count : 217

Adamawa State

Last Update:

Kontcha, at Kojoli to Poli via Tchamba, east from Jimeta at Touruoa to Ngong, east from Belel via Demsa to Gaschiga on P1 north of Garoua, and from Mubi...

Word Count : 4222

Hong Kong Disneyland

Last Update:

available on the Hong Kong Disneyland mobile app as well as the ability to reserve park visits and other related information for park visits. The park has...

Word Count : 6865

History of Kenya

Last Update:

to their forceful removal from the fertile Laikipia plateau to semi-arid Ngong. To make way for the Europeans (largely Britons and whites from South Africa)...

Word Count : 16014

Jomo Kenyatta

Last Update:

was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered, and his body was dumped in the Ngong Hills. After Kariuki's murder, Maloba noted, there was a "noticeable erosion"...

Word Count : 20631

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net