Rift Valley Province

Rift Valley ( RV) is the largest of the seven provinces of Kenya. Its capital is located at Lake Nakuru Nakuru.

Geography

The province consists of an up to 100 km wide valley that runs in a north-south direction from Lake Turkana to Nairobi. There is a section of the named by the geologist and explorer John Walter Gregory as the Great Rift Valley East African grave breach. This impressive Kenyan landscape near the Baringosees Gregory had coined the term Great Rift Valley, which was later extended to the entire system of the Great African grave breach.

The Rift Valley is also the largest dam in Kenya, the Turkwel Dam.

Not all levels lying in the valley is fertile, it change grassland with desert areas. The natron ( soda lakes ) are home to a peculiar bird life, characterized by the appearance of the characteristic for this part of Africa Flamingos.

Rift Valley is bordered on the south by Tanzania, Uganda to the west and to the north by Ethiopia and Southern Sudan and the disputed between the three neighboring countries Ilemi Triangle.

Population

Rift Valley is the fastest growing population in the province of Kenya; in 1989 there were about 4,981,613 inhabitants in 1999 there were already 6,987,036 and 2007 there are an estimated 8,786,372. Here live different population groups, including the Maasai, Samburu, Turkana and Kalenjin.

In the north live in Kakuma refugees from South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia.

Administrative divisions

Rift Valley is divided into 18 districts:

The Rift Valley fever was named after the valley, as it is believed that the contagious fever in this area has its origin.