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Masai Mara
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National Reserve in Narok County, Kenya
The Masai Mara is a national reserve located in Narok County, Kenya, known for its vast savannas and abundant wildlife. It is significant as a major destination for wildlife viewing and conservation in East Africa.
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Southern Rift Valley
- Country
- Kenya
- Located in
- Narok County
- Area
- 580
- Image
- Mara River Massai Mara.jpg
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- Commons category
- Masai Mara
- inception
- 1961-00-00
- heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site
- significant place
- Narok
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Encyclopedic overview
Maasai Mara, sometimes also spelt Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok County, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people, the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin. Their description of the area when looked at from afar: "Mara" means "spotted" in the Maa language because of the short bushy trees which dot the landscape.
Maasai Mara is one of the wildlife conservation and wilderness areas in Africa, with its populations of lions, leopards, cheetahs and African bush elephants. It also hosts the Great Migration, which secured it as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa, and as one of the ten Wonders of the World.
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