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English: Locator map of Mara region, Tanzania. Español: Mapa de localización de la provincia de Mara, Tanzania . Français : Carte de localisation de la région de Mara, Tanzanie .
Mara Region is known for being the home of Serengeti National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site and also the birth place of Tanzania's founding father Julius Nyerere. Under British colonial occupation, the Mara Region was a district called the Lake Province, which became the Lake Region after independence in 1961.
Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelt Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok County, 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.
Mara Lake is a lake in the Shuswap Country region of south central British Columbia, Canada.To the west is Hyde Mountain and east is Morton Peak. The outlet of the Shuswap River forms the upper reaches.
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).
Rorya District is a district in Mara Region, United Republic of Tanzania.The district capital is the small town of Ingri Juu, [1] while the largest town is Shirati.The district was created in 2007 from a part of Tarime District. [1]
The Grumeti River is a river in Mara Region, Tanzania, situated almost entirely within the western corridor of Serengeti National Park. It flows westward and mouths into the Speke Gulf of Lake Victoria .
The Mara River basin covers a surface of 13,504 km 2, of which approximately 65% is located in Kenya and 35% in Tanzania. [1] From its sources in the Kenyan highlands, the river flows for about 395 km and originates from the Mau Escarpment and drains into Lake Victoria.