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The Baringo Great Rift Valley (BGRV) Geopark is located within the central parts of Kenya’s Great Rift Valley;
it is part of the vast Afro-Arabian rift system that extends for approximately 6000km from the gulf of the Suez in the Middle East through the Red Sea to Mozambique.

GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE

The Baringo Great Rift Valley (BGRV) Geopark is part of the vast Afro-Arabian Rift system that extends for approximately 6000km from the Gulf of the Suez, in the Middle East through the Red Sea to Mozambique. The proposed Baringo Great Rift Valley Geopark in Kenya is part of the East Africa Rift System (EARS); its geologic structure is characterized by steep-fault scarps, deep gorges, step-faulted blocks, cliffs, escarpments, box faults, lakes system…

CULTURAL HERITAGE

Cultural heritage in its broadest sense is both a product and process which provides societies with a wealth of resources, which is inherited from the past, created in the present and bestowed for the benefit of the future generations. Traditionally, cultural heritage has been associated with monuments and collection of objects. However, it now covers the traditional and living expressions inherited by ancestors and passed on to descendants…

NATURAL HERITAGE

The region is part of a biodiversity hotspot classified by Conservation International, Centres of endemism and Important Bird Areas (IBA) as designated by Birdlife International. This can be explained by high species diversity for both plants and animals (including biome restricted) occurring at various altitudes and a variety of ecosystems ranging from savanna, aquatic, wetland to Afromontane ecosystems. Inventories for species for some sites have been documented.

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19.11.2025
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Baringo County, which aspires to be accredited as a UNESCO Global Geopark, is st

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19.5.2023
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Olaf Scholz The Chancellor of Germany made a state visit to Kenya on 5th -6th Ma

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19.11.2018
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