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Website. www .kws .org /parks /parks _reserves /MENP .html. Meru National Park is a Kenyan national park located east of Meru, 350 km (220 mi) from Nairobi. Covering an area of 870 km 2 (340 sq mi), it is one best known national parks in Kenya. Rainfall in this area is abundant with 635–762 mm (25.0–30.0 in) in the west of the park and 305 ...
Meru Betiri National Park. / 8.533°S 113.783°E / -8.533; 113.783. Meru Betiri National Park is a national park in the province of East Java, Indonesia, extending over an area of 580 km 2 of which a small part is marine (8.45 km 2 ). [2] The beaches of the park provide nesting grounds for endangered turtle species such as leatherback ...
Mount Meru ( Sanskrit / Pali: मेरु), also known as Sumeru, Sineru, or Mahāmeru, is the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the centre of all the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual universes. [1] The mountain is also mentioned in some scriptures of non-Indian based religions such ...
Mount Meru is a dormant stratovolcano located 70 kilometres (43 mi) west of Kilimanjaro in southeast Arusha Region, Tanzania. At a height of 4,562.13 metres (14,968 ft), [1] [4] it is visible from Mount Kilimanjaro on a clear day, [5] and is the fifth-highest of the highest mountain peaks of Africa , dependent on definition.
Panthera. Species: P. tigris. Subspecies: P. t. sondaica. Population: †Javan tiger. The Javan tiger was a Panthera tigris sondaica population native to the Indonesian island of Java. It was one of the three tiger populations that colonized the Sunda Islands during the last glacial period 110,000–12,000 years ago.
A herd of African buffalo in Kenya. The wildlife of Kenya refers to its fauna. The diversity of Kenya's wildlife has garnered international fame, especially for its populations of large mammals. Mammal species include lion ( Panthera leo ), cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus) hippopotamus ( Hippopotamus amphibius ), African buffalo ( Syncerus caffer ...
The Malabar large-spotted civet is dusky gray. It has a dark mark on the cheek, large transverse dark marks on the back and sides, and two obliquely transverse dark lines on the neck. These dark marks are more pronounced than in the large Indian civet. Its throat and neck are white. A mane starts between the shoulders.
The museum building was built in 1916, and was used as the District Commissioner Office, and is the oldest stone building in Meru. In 1973, the National Museums of Kenya made an agreement to renovate the structure into a local museum. [2] The museum first opened in 1974: the National Museums of Kenya along with the Meru County and Municipal ...