Gitathi-ini

The Central Province was a region in central Kenya until 2013, when Kenya's provinces were replaced by a system of counties. It covered an area of 11,449 km2 and was located to the north of Nairobi and west of Mount Kenya.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Outspan Hotel.

Outspan Hotel

Hotel

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The Outspan Hotel, located in Nyeri, Kenya, was developed from an old farm by Eric Sherbrooke Walker during the 1920s. In 1928, Walker opened the Outspan Hotel on 28 hectares of Crown Land in Nyeri, overlooking the gorge of a river in the Aberdare Range.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nyeri and Kiganjo.

Nyeri

Photo: Rotsee2, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Nyeri is a town situated in the Central Highlands of Kenya, at an average elevation of about 1,750 to 1,812 metres above sea level. It is the headquarters of Nyeri County and was the central administrative headquarters of the country's former Central Province.

Kiganjo

Town

Photo: Rupumped, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Kiganjo is a small town in Kenya's Nyeri county. It hosts the Kenya Police College which is Kenya's main college for police training. Kiganjo also hosts one of the Kenya Cooperative Creameries KCC and a milk depot for the Brookside Milk Company. Kiganjo is situated 9 km northeast of Gitathi-ini.

Gitathi-ini

Type: Locality
Description: place in Central Province, Kenya
Category: human settlement
Location: Nyeri County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude

-0.43333° or 0° 26′ south

Longitude

36.93333° or 36° 56′ east

Elevation

1,871 metres (6,138 feet)

Open location code

6GFRHW8M+M8

GeoNames ID

197294

Wikidata ID

Q5565069

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Irish—“Gitathi-ini” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Gitathi-ini”
Irish: “Gitathi-ini”

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