Kijabe

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Kijabe is also a spider genus (Oonopidae)

Kijabe is a town in Kenya. Its name is Masai for "Place of the Wind". It stands by the Great Rift Valley, some 50 kilometres north-west of Nairobi. Kijabe is located in the Lari division of Kiambu District. Kijabe has a population 17,334 (1999 census, total population of Kijabe location) [1]. Kijabe has a railway station along the Uganda Railway. The town is located between Limuru and Naivasha.

Kijabe is home to a large mission station, as well as Kijabe Hospital and the Rift Valley Academy, a school established in 1906.

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Coordinates: 0°56′S 36°34′E