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Mt. Elgon
Mt. Elgon is the second highest mountain in Kenya. The mountain straddles the Kenya-Uganda border. The name Elgon is a corruption of a Maasai word. The Maasai called the mountain Ol doinyo loo lkony or the mountain of the Il-kony. Il-kony refers to the Sabaot people who live on the slopes of Mount Elgon. The Sabaots are a part of the Kalenjin community.
Quick Facts:
Height: 4321 metres or 14,178 ft.
Peaks:
Wagagai - 4321 metres Uganda
Sudek - 4,302m Kenya
Koitobos - 4,222m KenyaStatus: extinct volcano
Age: 24 million years
Mount Elgon has the largest surface area of any extinct volcano in the world (50 km by 80 km ). Mt. Elgon It contains the largest intact caldera, a collapsed crater covering over 40kms at the top of the mountain, sorrounded by a series of rugged peaks
Vegetation
Dense montane forest
Bamboo
Heath and moorland
Giant lobelia and groundsels
Wildlife
Black and White Colobus Monkey,
Blue Monkey,
Birds such as
Golden Winged and Tacazze sunbirds, Ross's and Hartlaubs Turacos, Black and White Casqued and Crowned Hornbills, the endangered Lammergeier and the Jackson's Francolin.
Buffalo,
Duiker,
Hyena
Leopard.
Elephant
Mount Elgon is sorrounded by the Mount Elgon National park on the Kenyan side and the main entrance is at Suam in Kitale
Mt. Elgon is the second highest mountain in Kenya. The mountain straddles the Kenya-Uganda border. The name Elgon is a corruption of a Maasai word. The Maasai called the mountain Ol doinyo loo lkony or the mountain of the Il-kony. Il-kony refers to the Sabaot people who live on the slopes of Mount Elgon. The Sabaots are a part of the Kalenjin community.
Quick Facts:
Height: 4321 metres or 14,178 ft.
Peaks:
Wagagai - 4321 metres Uganda
Sudek - 4,302m Kenya
Koitobos - 4,222m KenyaStatus: extinct volcano
Age: 24 million years
Mount Elgon has the largest surface area of any extinct volcano in the world (50 km by 80 km ). Mt. Elgon It contains the largest intact caldera, a collapsed crater covering over 40kms at the top of the mountain, sorrounded by a series of rugged peaks
Vegetation
Dense montane forest
Bamboo
Heath and moorland
Giant lobelia and groundsels
Wildlife
Black and White Colobus Monkey,
Blue Monkey,
Birds such as
Golden Winged and Tacazze sunbirds, Ross's and Hartlaubs Turacos, Black and White Casqued and Crowned Hornbills, the endangered Lammergeier and the Jackson's Francolin.
Buffalo,
Duiker,
Hyena
Leopard.
Elephant
Mount Elgon is sorrounded by the Mount Elgon National park on the Kenyan side and the main entrance is at Suam in Kitale
