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Staff and visitors have been left stranded and buildings submerged at Kenya’s famous Maasai Mara nature reserve, as the death toll in catastrophic flooding in the country’s southwest rose to ...
Tourists were evacuated by air from Kenya's Maasai Mara national reserve Wednesday after more than a dozen hotels, lodges and camps were flooded as heavy rains continue to batter the country.
Maasai Mara. 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, [2] the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin.
The Maasai (/ ˈ m ɑː s aɪ, m ɑː ˈ s aɪ /; [3] [4] Swahili: Wamasai) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, near the African Great Lakes region. [5] The Maasai speak the Maa language (ɔl Maa), [5] a member of the Nilotic language family that is related to the Dinka, Kalenjin and ...
Mara Wetland. The Mara Wetland is a riverine floodplain wetland located near Lake Victoria where the Mara River discharges its water into it. Masai Mara River aerial. The wetland is mainly fed by the Mara River, which has its source in the Kenyan Mau escarpment. [1]
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 km 2) in size at the core of an 8,000 km 2 (3,100 sq mi) ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya- Tanzania border. [2] It harbours 400 species of birds including water birds like pelicans ...
Maasai Mara conservancies. To the east and north of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, some of the former Maasai cattle-grazing areas have been converted into wildlife conservancies for tourism. [1] The conservancies include Enonkishu, Lemek, Mara Naboisho, Mara North, Nashulai, Olare Motorogi, Olarro North and Olarro South, Olchorro Oirowua, Ol ...
Length. 395 km (245 mi) Basin size. 13,504 km 2 (5,214 sq mi) Bridges on the border of Kenya and Tanzania. Hippo with calf, Mara River, Kenya. The Mara River is a river that begins in Narok County (Kenya) and ends in Mara Region (Tanzania). It lies across the migration path of ungulates in the Maasai Mara / Serengeti ecosystem. [citation needed]