Lake Baringo is, after Lake Turkana, the most northern of the Kenyan Rift Valley lakes, with a surface area of 130 square kilometres (50 sq mi) and an elevation of 970 metres (3,180 ft). The lake is fed by several rivers, Molo, Perkerra and Ol Arabel, and has no obvious outlet; the waters are assumed to seep through lake sediments into the faulted volcanic bedrock. It is one of the two freshwater lakes in the Rift Valley in Kenya, the other being Lake Naivasha. In a remote location in a hot and dusty area with over 470 species of birds, occasionally including migrating flamingos. A Goliath heronry is located on a rocky islet in the lake known as Gibraltar.
Tugen may also refer to Tugen Hills in Kenya.
Laikipia County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya, located on the Equator in the former Rift Valley Province of the country. Laikipia is a cosmopolitan county and is county number 31. The county has two major urban centres: Nanyuki to the southeast, and Nyahururu to the southwest. Its capital is Rumuruti.
Kabarnet is a town in Baringo County, Kenya. The town has an urban population of 9,583 and a total population of 24,661
Baringo Central Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of six constituencies in Baringo County. The constituency was established for the 1966 elections.
Sacho is a township in Baringo County, Kenya. It is located along Kabarnet - Eldama Ravine road 24 kilometres south of Kabarnet and 6 kilometres north of Tenges.
Kamama Asman Abongutum is a Kenyan politician. He belongs to the Party of National Unity, through its coalition partner NARC-Kenya and was elected to represent the Baringo East Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the 2007 Kenyan parliamentary election. He failed in his 2017 bid to be re-elected, garnering 34% of the vote.
Sammy Silas Komen Mwaita is a Kenyan politician. He is a member of the United Republican Party (URP)and is a former MP in the National Assembly of Kenya.
William Kipkorir is a Kenyan politician. He belongs to the Orange Democratic Movement and was elected to represent the Baringo North Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the 2007 Kenyan parliamentary election.
Moses K. Lessonet is a Kenyan politician. He was elected to represent the Eldama Ravine Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya in the Kenyan parliamentary election, 2007 as a member of the Orange Democratic Movement.He is an accountant by profession, having graduated at the University of Nairobi 1993 with Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting). In 2013, he ran for Parliament as a member of the United Republican Party.
Baringo East Constituency was a former electoral constituency in Kenya. It was one of three constituencies in Baringo District, Rift Valley Province. The constituency was established for the 1963 elections. The constituency had nine wards, all electing councillors for the Baringo County Council.
Baringo North Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of six constituencies in Baringo County. The constituency was established for the 1963 elections. The constituency has ten wards, all electing councillors for the Baringo County Council.
Eldama Ravine Constituency box number 336-20103 is an electoral constituency in Baringo County, Kenya. It is one of six constituencies in the county and was one of two constituencies of the former Koibatek District. The constituency was established for the 1997 elections.
Mogotio Constituency is an electoral constituency in Baringo County, Kenya. It is one of six constituencies in the county and was one of two constituencies of the former Koibatek District. It was established before the 1997 elections. There are 12 wards, all electing councillors for the Koibatek County Council.
The Great Rift Valley is part of an intra-continental ridge system that runs through Kenya from north to south. It is part of the Gregory Rift, the eastern branch of the East African Rift, which starts in Tanzania to the south and continues northward into Ethiopia. It was formed on the "Kenyan Dome" a geographical upwelling created by the interactions of three major tectonics: the Arabian, Nubian, and Somalian plates. In the past, it was seen as part of a "Great Rift Valley" that ran from Madagascar to Syria. Most of the valley falls within the former Rift Valley Province.
Mochongoi is a community and a division in Baringo County, Kenya. Mochongoi is also an electoral constituency. The town lies in the northern end of the Aberdare Range and is a relatively new settlement in what was the Ol Arabel forest reserve.
Grace Kobilo Kiptui is a Kenyan politician and a former Member of Parliament. She is the first women representative of Baringo County in the 11th Kenyan Parliament and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She was elected on March 4, 2013 in the 2013 Kenyan general election. She belongs to the United Republican Party. She is popularly known as Mama County.
Grace Jelagat Kimoi Kipchoim was a Kenyan representative in the National Assembly of Kenya for Baringo South Constituency constituency. She was a coalition member of the Jubilee Alliance and a member of the United Republican Party (URP). She won the legislative seat while ill and did very few mobile campaigns compared to her main challenger, Charles Kamuren (KANU) who garnered 8,905 votes versus her 9,299 votes. Early in 2018, rumours on social media claimed that she had died, but she came out to defend herself and said they were being peddled by her detractors to tarnish her name. However, on 20 April 2018, she died of cancer while under treatment at Nairobi Hospital.
Tiaty is a constituency in Kenya. It is one of six constituencies in Baringo County.
