Amboseli National Park
National park in Kajiado County, Kenya / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
Amboseli National Park | |
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Location | Loitoktok District, Kajiado County, Kenya |
Nearest city | Nairobi |
Coordinates | 02°38′29″S 37°14′53″E |
Area | 392 km2 (151 sq mi) |
Established |
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Visitors | 120,000 estimated (in 2006) |
Governing body | Kenya Wildlife Service, Olkejuado County Council and the Maasai community |
The park protects two of the five main swamps and includes a dried-up Pleistocene lake and semiarid vegetation.