Machakos
| Machakos | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| county | Machakos County | ||
| Residents | 144,109 pop. | ||
| height | 1715 m | ||
| Coordinates | 1 ° 31 ′ S , 37 ° 16 ′ E | ||
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Machakos is a city in Kenya , 64 kilometers southeast of Nairobi . It is the capital of Machakos County in Kenya and a Roman Catholic bishopric . Machakos is both an agricultural hub and a satellite city because of its proximity to Nairobi. The population has grown rapidly and in 1999 stood at 144,109. Most of the city's residents belong to the Kambas people . Machakos is surrounded by a hilly landscape with a high number of family farms . Machakos was founded in 1889, ten years before Nairobi.
Machakos was the first administrative center of the British colony , but Kenya's capital became Nairobi in 1899 when Machakos was passed by the Uganda Railway , which was under construction at the time. The city and county were named after Masaku, a Kamba chief.
The main locations are the Machakos sports club on a large site including a 9-hole golf course.
Important schools are the Machakos Primary School and Machakos Boys School. Another well-known school is Mumbuni High School .
A place on one of the surrounding hills is famous for "water that flows against gravity". It is located on Kituluni Hill, 12 km east of Machakos.
useful information
- The Sudan held peace talks in Machakos from, written in the Machakos Protocol on 20 July of 2002.
- There is a bus station in Nairobi known as Machakos Airport . It is a busy square with buses and matatus departing for Machakos and Kitui .
sons and daughters of the town
- Joseph Mutua (* 1978), middle-distance runner
- Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku (* 1992), middle and long distance runner
- Cosmas Ndeti , three-time Boston Marathon winner from 1993 to 1995
- Alice Ngii (* 1993), national soccer player
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Nairobi Railway Museum . greywall.demon.co.uk
- ↑ Weird goings on at Kituluni hill Kenya . ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Book Of THoTH - Ghosts & Spirits
