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Combined, the national park and forest reserve became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. [3] The Government of Kenya had four reasons for creating a national park on and around Mount Kenya. These were the importance of tourism for the local and national economies, to preserve an area of great scenic beauty, to conserve the biodiversity ...
Mount Kenya is the main water catchment area for two large rivers in Kenya; the Tana, the largest river in Kenya, and the Ewaso Nyiro North. [11] The Mount Kenya ecosystem provides water directly for over 2 million people. [11] The rivers on Mount Kenya have been named after the villages on the slopes of the mountain that they flow close to.
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[2] [3] The majority of the 15,000 visitors to the national park each year climb this peak. In contrast, approximately 200 people summit Nelion and 50 summit Batian, the two highest peaks. [4] Mount Kenya's climbing seasons are unique as a result of its location only 10 miles from the equator.
The lower slopes of Mount Kenya are very fertile and the area is heavily cultivated. The soils are moist and fertile due to past volcanic activity. [7] Most of the area that is now cultivated on the slopes of Mount Kenya used to be forest. During the deforestation to provide land for crops and grazing some trees were left standing. From these ...
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This 1911 map shows the region around Mount Kenya labelled as Kenya. [11] Mount Kenya received its current name by European missionaries who, wrote the name as 'Kenya' from the Akamba word 'kiinyaa'. The first missionaries, Johann Ludwig Krapf, and Johannes Rebmann, were led into Kenyas interior by Akamba long-distance traders.