Wednesday, 9 December 2015

mt kenya

mt kenya 

Mt Kenya is the accomplished abundance in Kenya and the second-highest in Africa, afterwards Kilimanjaro. The accomplished peaks of the abundance are Batian (5,199 metres (17,057 ft)), Nelion (5,188 metres (17,021 ft)) and Point Lenana (4,985 metres (16,355 ft)). Mt Kenya is amid in axial Kenya, about 16.5 kilometres (10.3 mi) south of the equator, about 150 kilometres (93 mi) north-northeast of the basic Nairobi. Mt Kenya is the antecedent of the name of the Republic of Kenya.
Mt Kenya is a stratovolcano created about 3 actor years afterwards the aperture of the East African rift. Before glaciation, it was 7,000 m (23,000 ft) high. It was covered by an ice cap for bags of years. This has resulted in actual breakable slopes and abundant valleys beaming from the centre. There are currently 11 baby glaciers. The forested slopes are an important antecedent of baptize for abundant of Kenya

There are several frondescence bands from the abject to the summit. The lower slopes are covered by altered types of forest. Many aerial breed are ancient to Mt Kenya, such as the behemothic lobelias and senecios and a bounded subspecies of bedrock hyrax.An breadth of 715 km2 (276 sq mi) about the centre of the abundance was appointed a National Esplanade and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. The esplanade receives over 16,000 visitors per year

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