GREAT RIFT VALLEY
Rift
Valley Province of Kenya, bordering Uganda, is one of
Kenya's seven administrative provinces outside Nairobi.
Rift Valley Province is the largest and one of the most
economically vibrant provinces in Kenya. It is dominated
by the Great Rift Valley which passes through it and
gives the province its name. According to the 1999
Census, the province covers an area of 173,854 km˛ for a
population of 6,987,036 inhabitants, being the largest
and most populated in the country. The capital is the
town of Nakuru.
The
people of the Rift Valley are hard-working and, were the
economic conditions in the whole country to improve,
they would benefit to a great extent. The people of the
Rift Valley are a mesh work of different tribal
identities. Most of Kenya's top runners hail from the
Kalenjin community. The Maasai people serve as Kenya's
international cultural symbol: the Maasai community have
the most recognizable cultural identity in and outside
Kenya. The Kalenjin and the Maasai are only a couple of
the communities that call Rift Valley home. Other
communities live here as well. People in the province
are mostly rural, although they are growing more urban.
Cities and towns have sprung up over the years to
contain the rural-urban migration. Provided the right
policies are instituted, Rift Valley province can emerge
as the economic and cultural mecca in Kenya.
Apart from the Rift Valley itself, the area has other important geographic features such as: the extinct volcanoes Mount Longonot and Mount Suswa and Lake Baringo, Lake Bogoria, Lake Magadi, Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha, the Suguta Valley, and Lake Turkana.
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