Lake Baringo
Lake Baringo is, after Lake Turkana, the most northern of the Kenyan Rift Valley lakes, with a surface area of 130 square kilometres and an elevation of 970 metres.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Ferdinand Reus, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake
- Also known as: “Lake Baring”
Photo: Doron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Ferdinand Reus, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kampi Ya Samaki and Loruk.
Kampi Ya Samaki
Village
Kampi Ya Samaki is a settlement in Kenya's Baringo County, located on the shore of Lake Baringo. The name Ya Samaki is Swahili for 'fish camp'. Kampi ya is a landing bay for fishermen and also provides a market for their fish. Kampi Ya Samaki is situated 5 km southwest of Lake Baringo.
Loruk
Village
Loruk is a settlement in Kenya's Baringo County. It is inhabited by the pastoralist Arror people. Loruk trading center serves the Arror, the neighbouring Pokot, and to a small extend, the agro-pastoralist Njemps people living around the Lake Baringo. Loruk is situated 8 km northwest of Lake Baringo.
Lake Baringo
- Category: body of water
- Location: Baringo, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Baringo from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Western Panjabi—“Lake Baringo” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Барынга”
- Bhojpuri: “बैरिंगो झील”
- Bulgarian: “Баринго (езеро)”
- Bulgarian: “Баринго”
- Burmese: “ဘရင်ဂိုကန်”
- Catalan: “llac Baringo”
- Catalan: “Llac Baringo”
- Cebuano: “Lake Baringo”
- Chinese: “巴林哥湖”
- Chinese: “巴林戈湖”
- Chuvash: “Баринго”
- Czech: “Baringo”
- Danish: “Baringosøen”
- Danish: “Lake Baringo”
- Dutch: “Baringomeer”
- Dutch: “Lake Baringo”
- Esperanto: “Baringo”
- Finnish: “Baringojärvi”
- French: “lac Baringo”
- French: “Lac Baringo”
- Galician: “Lago Baringo”
- Georgian: “ბარინგო”
- German: “Baringo-See”
- German: “Baringosee”
- German: “Lake Baringo”
- Hebrew: “אגם ברינגו”
- Hungarian: “Baringo-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Baringo”
- Italian: “lago Baringo”
- Italian: “Lago Baringo”
- Japanese: “バリンゴ湖”
- Kazakh: “Баринго көлі”
- Kinyarwanda: “Ikiyaga cya Baringo”
- Latvian: “Baringo ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Baringas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baringosjøen”
- Norwegian: “Baringosjøen”
- Persian: “دریاچه بارینگو”
- Polish: “Baringo”
- Russian: “Баринго”
- Spanish: “Lago Baringo”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Baringo”
- Swedish: “Baringosjön”
- Turkish: “Baringo Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Барінго”
- Venetian: “lago Baringo”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Baringo”
- Welsh: “Llyn Baringo”
- Western Panjabi: “جھیل بیرنگو”
- “बैरिंगो झील”
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