Gilgil River
The Gilgil River drains part of the floor of the Great Rift Valley, Kenya and the plateau to the east of the valley, flowing from the north into Lake Naivasha.- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Kenya
- Also known as: “Khirgil” and “Kilgil”
Gilgil River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Nakuru County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-0.67481° or 0° 40′ 29″ south
Longitude
36.34751° or 36° 20′ 51″ east
Elevation
1,886 metres (6,188 feet)
Open location code
6GFR88GX+32
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Gilgil River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر جيلجيل”
- French: “Gilgil (rivière)”
- French: “Gilgil”
- Hausa: “Kogin Gilgil”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Gilgil”
- Irish: “Abhainn Gilgil”
- Japanese: “ギルギル川”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Gilgil”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gilgil”
- Somali: “Webiga Gilgil”
- Swahili: “Mto Gilgil”
- Welsh: “Afon Gilgil”
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