Amboseli National Park is a national park in Loitoktok District in Kajiado County, Kenya, formerly known as Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, covering a core area of about 392 square kilometres within a much larger 8,000 square kilometre ecosystem that spans the Kenya-Tanzania border in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro. The park is home to around 400 recorded bird species, including pelicans, kingfishers, crakes and hamerkop among 47 species of raptor, and it remains closely tied to the Maasai people who live throughout the surrounding ecosystem. It is one of Kenya's most visited parks, drawing visitors especially for close encounters with its free-ranging elephant herds against the backdrop of Kilimanjaro.
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Designation Category Established Year Area (sq km) Governing Body IUCN Category Classification
Governance TypeGovernance by Government 1 International DesignationUNESCO Biosphere Reserve 2 Governing Body
Governing Body (category) FAQs
Is Amboseli also a UNESCO biosphere reserve?
Yes. UNESCO recognizes Amboseli as a biosphere reserve at the foot of Kilimanjaro with several ecological zones.
Yes. UNESCO lists an Amboseli Biosphere Reserve in southern Kenya, and the park carries that international designation. UNESCO describes the reserve as lying at the foot of Kilimanjaro on the Kenyan side of the border and containing a variety of ecological zones, including natural dry mountain forest, mountains, savannah rangelands, wetlands and swamps. A biosphere reserve is broader than a national park in purpose, because it also looks at how the people living around it can use the land sustainably.
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Amboseli National Park lies in Kajiado County, Kenya.
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Amboseli is renowned for its views of Mount Kilimanjaro across the Kenya-Tanzania border.
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Nairobi is the nearest major city to Amboseli National Park.
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1. Amboseli National Park (Wikipedia)
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is a national park in Loitoktok District in Kajiado County, Kenya
Infobox: established
1906; as a reserve 1974; as a national park
Infobox, area_km2
392
Infobox, governing_body
Kenya Wildlife Service, Olkejuado County Council and the Maasai community
Infobox, iucn_category
II
Governing body field (existing citation)
Kenya Wildlife Service
Wikipedia lead extract, realm terrestrial
Amboseli National Park, formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, is a national park in Loitoktok District in Kajiado County, Kenya.
Associated With: Kenya, Lead section
Amboseli National Park, formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, is a national park in Loitoktok District in Kajiado County, Kenya.
Associated With: Mount Kilimanjaro, Wildlife section, image caption
Elephants in Amboseli National Park with Mount Kilimanjaro in the background
Associated With: Nairobi, Infobox
Nearest city: Nairobi
View the Source 2. UNESCO: UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme: Amboseli Biosphere Reserve
UNESCOOpen data recordQuote, Open data record
Located at the foot of Kilimanjaro on the Kenyan side of the border, the Amboseli Biosphere Reserve contains a variety of ecological zones, including natural dry mountain forest, mountains, savannah rangelands, wetlands and swamps.
Wikidata: Amboseli National Park
- Wikidata Q458423, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Part Of: Kenya, Wikidata item, property P17 (country)
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