Menengai

Menengai Crater is a massive shield volcano with one of the biggest calderas in the world, in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya. It is the largest volcano caldera in and the second largest volcano caldera in .
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 2,228 metres
  • Description: shield volcano in Kenya
  • Also known as: “Menengai Crater” and “Menengai, Kenya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Menengai III Geothermal Power Station.

Electrical substation
The is a 35 MW geothermal power plant in . The power station reached full commercial commissioning in August 2023.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nakuru.

Photo: Franco Pecchio, CC BY 2.0.
, sometimes referred to as City, is the capital and largest city of County, . As of 2019, had an urban population of 570,674.

Menengai

Latitude
-0.20203° or 0° 12′ 7″ south
Longitude
36.07034° or 36° 4′ 13″ east
Elevation
2,228 metres (7,310 feet)
Open location code
6GFRQ3XC+54
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2460392787
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
186875
Wiki­data ID
Q1672337
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Menengai” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مينينغاي”
  • Armenian: “Մենենգաի”
  • Asturian: “Menengai”
  • Basque: “Menengai”
  • Bulgarian: “Мененгай”
  • Catalan: “Menengai”
  • Cebuano: “Menengai”
  • Chechen: “Мененгаи”
  • Chinese: “門南蓋伊火山”
  • Czech: “Menengai”
  • Danish: “Menengai krater”
  • Dutch: “Menengai”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مينينجاى”
  • French: “Menengai”
  • Georgian: “მენენგაი”
  • German: “Menengai-Krater”
  • Greek: “Μενενγκάι”
  • Japanese: “メネンガイ”
  • Ladin: “Menengai”
  • Persian: “مننگای”
  • Russian: “Мененгаи”
  • Slovak: “Menengai”
  • Spanish: “Menengai”
  • Swahili: “Mlima Menengai”
  • Swedish: “Menengai”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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