Kitengela

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Kitengela is a plain in Kenya, located south of capital Nairobi. There is also a town named Kitengela in the area.

Close to Nairobi National Park is also the Kitengela Game Conservation Area populated with buffalo, masai giraffe, black rhino, eland, impala, Grant's and Thomson's gazelle, common and Defassa waterbuck, hippopotamus, warthog, Olive Baboon, monkeys and the attendant carnivores - lion, Spotted Hyena, cheetah, jackals, Bat-eared Fox and smaller carnivores.

The diversity of species is decreasing in the Kitengela area adjacent to the Nairobi National Park, where land-uses not compatible with wildlife are increasing.

[edit] Kitengela town

Kitengela town is located in just south of Nairobi borders. The town is part of the Kajiado District. Kitengela has an urban population of 8378 [1]

Near Kitengela town is the Maasai Ostrich Park, a fairly popular tourist destination 7 km off the Nairobi - Arusha road. It is also a place where Jockeys train for Ostrich racing [2]. Ostrich races are held at the farm on Sundays and occasionally at the Ngong Racecourse in Nairobi.

The Athi River town is next to Kitengela, but is part of the Machakos District in Eastern Province, while Kitengela belongs to Kajiado District in the Rift Valley Province.