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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.
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.
The Mara River is a river in Nunavut which flows into the Burnside River to empty into Bathurst Inlet on the Arctic Ocean. It flows north from headwaters at Nose Lake and is 260 kilometres (160 mi) long.
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. [27] The park is divided into three regions: Serengeti plains: The best-known feature of the Serengeti is the almost treeless grassland in the south.
In Maasai Mara, camp owners were told to leave the affected properties and “move to higher ground further away from River Talek,” governor of Narok county Patrick Ole Ntutu said on Wednesday.
Gnus crossing the Mara River.. Nile. White Nile. Victoria Nile (Uganda) Lake Victoria. Nzoia River; Yala River; Nyando River; Sondu River (Miriu River); Awach River. Itare River; Kitare River (South Awach River)
The Mara Wetland is a riverine floodplain wetland located near Lake Victoria where the Mara River discharges its water into it.. Masai Mara River aerial. The wetland is mainly fed by the Mara River, which has its source in the Kenyan Mau escarpment.
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.