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Ngong Hills Mbagathi Water Resource Users Association / Ngong Hills Mbagathi WRUA has been making the Ngong area Water Catchment area better by planting indigenous trees and town cleaning activities. Ngong Water catchment area covers Thogoto, Kibiko, Oloolua, Ngong Hills Forest Reserve and Nairobi National Park. It is a water catchment area for ...
Ngong Hills Forest Reserve is the protected area of the larger Ngong Hills, Ngong, Kenya. The reserve is located on the southern tip of the Rift Valley region , 25 kilometres (16 miles) away from Kenya's capital, Nairobi .
Ngong is a town near the Ngong Hills along the Great Rift Valley within Kajiado County, located in the southwest of Nairobi, in southern Kenya. The word "Ngong" is a Maasai word derived from the word "enkong'u" meaning both "the 'eye'" and " eye of water " or thus spring of water.
Ngong Forest is one of the few natural forests in the capital city of Kenya. It is located along Ngong Road , 6 kilometres (3.7 miles) from Nairobi 's central business district. [ 1 ] Managed by the Ngong Road Forest Sanctuaries, [ 2 ] this habitat of indigenous trees is home to many wild animals, including leopards , spotted hyenas , and Cape ...
Ngong Hills Wind Power Station. The power station is located in the northern foothills of Ngong Hills, near the town of Ngong, in Kajiado County, approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi), by road, southwest of Nairobi, the capital and largest city in Kenya. [1]
The Ngong Hills, located to the west of the city, are the most prominent geographical feature of the Nairobi area. Mount Kenya is situated north of Nairobi, and Mount Kilimanjaro is towards the south-east. [45] The Nairobi River and its tributaries traverse through the Nairobi County and joins the larger River Athi on the eastern edge of the ...
The town is situated 17 km (10.6 mi) south of the Nairobi CBD, East of the Ngong hills, and within the greater Nairobi Metropolitan Region. [1] It lies 1,731 meters (5,682 feet) above sea level . According to the 2019 Census, it is the most populous town in Kajiado County and eleventh largest urban centre by population in Kenya.
Producing 25.5 MW of electricity, and with plans of increasing the capacity by an additional 10 MW, Ngong Hills Wind Farm was Kenya's first wind farm to be commissioned. [37] [38] Ngong Hills Wind Farm is also recognized as the first wind farm in East Africa with construction being completed in 1993 with the help of Belgium collaboration. [38]