THE PLACE
Famous for tree-climbing lions and a dramatic setting beneath the Rift Valley escarpment, with large flocks of flamingo on the lake itself.
QUICK FACTS
- SIZE
- About 648 km², roughly a third of which is the lake
- ESTABLISHED
- 1960
- SETTING
- At the base of the Great Rift Valley escarpment, rising nearly 1,800 meters along the western edge
- BIRDLIFE
- Over 350 recorded species
- KNOWN FOR
- A resident pride of tree-climbing lions
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