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Key facts
- Primary inflows
- Molo , Ol Arabel
- Basin countries
- Kenya
- Surface area
- 130 km (50 sq mi)
- Surface elevation
- 1,000 m (3,300 ft)
- Designated
- 10 January 2002
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Baringo is, after Lake Turkana, the most northern of the Kenyan Rift Valley lakes, with a surface area of 130 square kilometres (50 sq mi) and an elevation of 970 metres (3,180 ft). The lake is fed by several rivers: the Molo, Perkerra and Ol Arabel. It has no obvious outlet; the waters are assumed to seep through lake sediments into the faulted volcanic bedrock. It is one of the two freshwater lakes in the Rift Valley in Kenya, the other being Lake Naivasha.
The lake is in a remote hot and dusty area with over 470 species of birds, occasionally including migrating flamingos. A Goliath heronry is located on a rocky islet in the lake known as Gibraltar.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Baringo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.