The Great Rift Valley (Swahili: Bonde la ufa) is a series of contiguous geographic depressions, approximately 6,000 or 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in...
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The Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia, (or Main Ethiopian Rift or Ethiopian Rift Valley) is a branch of the East African Rift that runs through Ethiopia in...
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formerly considered to be part of a larger Great Rift Valley that extended north to Asia Minor. A narrow zone, the rift is a developing divergent tectonic plate...
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The Great Rift Valley is part of an intra-continental ridge system that runs through Kenya from north to south. It is part of the Gregory Rift, the eastern...
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the Province was partitioned into counties and Rift Valley Province was dissolved. The Great Rift Valley runs south through Kenya from Lake Turkana in...
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The Jordan Rift Valley, also Jordan Valley (Hebrew: בִּקְעָת הַיַרְדֵּן Bīqʿāt haYardēn, Arabic: الغور Al-Ghor or Al-Ghawr),[citation needed] is an elongated...
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Rift Valley lakes are the northernmost of the African Rift Valley lakes. In central Ethiopia, the Main Ethiopian Rift, also known as the Great Rift Valley...
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The African Great Lakes (Swahili: Maziwa Makuu; Kinyarwanda: Ibiyaga bigari) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and...
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His 1896 book The Great Rift Valley is considered a classic. Gregory was the first well-known European to use the term "rift valley", which he defined...
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The Great Rift Valley is a series of connected geographic valleys from Lebanon to Mozambique. Great Rift Valley may also refer to: Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia...
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African Rift Rift Valley fever, mild to severe viral disease Great Rift Valley (disambiguation) Jordan Rift Valley Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley This disambiguation...
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Tanganyika. The geographical term includes the valley and the surrounding mountains. The Albertine Rift and the mountains are the result of tectonic movements...
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South Cushitic languages (redirect from Rift Valley Cushitc languages)
agro-pastoralists from Ethiopia, who began migrating southward into the Great Rift Valley in the third millennium BC. The original homeland of Proto-South Cushitic...
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continuation of the Jordan Rift Valley, and thus part of the Great Rift Valley, which stretches from Syria to the Red Sea. Beqaa Valley is 120 kilometres (75 mi)...
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Rift which includes: Great Rift Valley, Kenya, a major rift valley in Kenya Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia, a major rift valley in Ethiopia Great Rift of...
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Arabah (redirect from Arava Rift Valley)
covered almost the entire length of what today is called the Jordan Rift Valley, running in a north–south orientation between the southern end of the...
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wildlife of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. At the end of each fifty-minute episode, a ten-minute featurette, Inside The Great Rift, takes a behind-the-scenes...
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Amboseli National Park (category Great Rift Valley)
Amboseli National Park, formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, is a national park in Loitoktok District in Kajiado County, Kenya. It is 39,206 ha (392...
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Samburu National Reserve (category Great Rift Valley)
Samburu National Reserve is a game reserve on the banks of the Ewaso Ng'iro river in Kenya. It is 165 km2 (64 sq mi) in size and is 350 km (220 mi) from...
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(Pennsylvania) Great Valley School District Great Valley Corporate Center Great Rift Valley, Kenya, a major rift valley Great Rift Valley (geographical...
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Kahama, Tanzania (category Cities in the Great Rift Valley)
Kahama is a town in north-western Tanzania. The town serves as the headquarters of Kahama Urban District. Kahama is located in the Kahama District of the...
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Albertine Rift East African Rift Ethiopian Rift Valley Great Rift Valley Nile Valley (Egypt/Sudan/Ethiopia/Uganda) Nugaal Valley (Somalia) Umba Valley (Tanzania)...
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Mediterranean coast. Geographically it is dominated by the Jordan Valley, a section of the Great Rift Valley bisecting the region from north to south, and containing...
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Lake Naivasha (category Lakes of the Great Rift Valley)
Nakuru County, which lies north west of Nairobi. It is situated in the Great Rift Valley. The name derives from the local Maasai name ɛnaɨpɔ́sha , meaning...
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Lake Natron (category Saline lakes of the Great Rift Valley)
at the border with Kenya. It is in the Gregory Rift, which is the eastern branch of the East African Rift. The lake is within the Lake Natron Basin, a Ramsar...
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Rift Valley region of Kenya. It is the capital of Nakuru County, and it is the fourth largest city in Kenya and the largest in the Great Rift Valley,...
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Gaet'ale Pond (category Saline lakes of the Great Rift Valley)
Gaet'ale Pond is a small hypersaline lake located near the Dallol crater in the Danakil Depression (Afar Region, Ethiopia). It is located over a hot spring...
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Great Lakes, within Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. The mountains are related to the East African Rift...
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Afar Triangle (category Great Rift Valley)
depression caused by the Afar triple junction, which is part of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. The region has disclosed fossil specimens of the very...
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lakes in and around the Great Rift Valley in eastern Africa Great Lake (Tasmania), a lake in Australia Perth Wetlands or Great Lakes District, in Perth...
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