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Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelt Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people , [ 2 ] the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin.
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Angama Mara has a private entrance to the 512 square kilometres (198 sq mi) Mara Triangle where all game drives take place. The Mara Triangle has abundant year-round wildlife, including the Big Five. It is also where the Great Migration enters and exits the Maasai Mara National Reserve and crosses the Mara River. [8]
Staff and visitors have been left stranded at Kenya’s famous nature reserve, as the death toll in catastrophic flooding rose to at least 188 people.
The Serengeti (/ ˌ s ɛr ə n ˈ ɡ ɛ t i / SERR-ən-GHET-ee) ecosystem is a geographical region in Africa, spanning the Mara and Arusha Regions of Tanzania. [1] The protected area within the region includes approximately 30,000 km 2 (12,000 sq mi) of land, including the Serengeti National Park and several game reserves . [ 2 ]
The Mara Triangle is one third of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, with an area of 510 km 2.It has two natural borders and one political; to the southwest is the Tanzania/Serengeti border, to the east is the Mara River, and to the northwest is the Oldoinyio Escarpment (also called Oloololo or Siria Escarpment).
The conservancies came about when Maasai land owners with neighbouring land came together to agree that safari camp operators could use their land for tourism purposes, in return for either a percentage of profits or leasing fee. [3] While this varies between conservancies, in some instances the Maasai retain livestock grazing rights in .
The Mara River, which flows through Maasai Mara National Reserve from the Kenyan highlands to Lake Victoria, is the only permanently-flowing river in the Serengeti ecosystem. [30] The park is divided into three regions: Serengeti plains: The best-known feature of the Serengeti is the almost treeless grassland in the south.