Athi River
Athi River is a town outside Nairobi, Kenya in Machakos County. The town is named after the Athi River, which passes through. It is also known as Mavoko.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 81,300 residents
- Description: town in Kenya
- Also known as: “Mavoko”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gulf Energy Thermal Power Station.
Gulf Energy Thermal Power Station
Power station
Gulf Energy Thermal Power Station, also Athi River Thermal Power Station, is an 80.32 MW, heavy fuel oil-fired thermal power station in Kenya. This power station is one of about a dozen heavy fuel-fired power stations which offer the country backup capacity… Gulf Energy Thermal Power Station is situated 3½ km east of Athi River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kitengela.
Kitengela
Town
Photo: Nairobi123, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kitengela is a municipality in the Kajiado County of Kenya, located 34 kilometres south of the capital Nairobi, forming part of the greater Metropolitan Area. Kitengela is situated 3½ km southwest of Athi River.
Athi River
- Category: locality
- Location: Machakos County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-1.447° or 1° 26′ 49″ southLongitude
36.9756° or 36° 58′ 32″ eastPopulation
81,300Elevation
1,505 metres (4,938 feet)United Nations Location Code
KE ARIOpen location code
6GCRHX3G+56OpenStreetMap ID
way 677845201OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Zulu—“Athi River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Athi River”
- Cebuano: “Athi River”
- Chinese: “阿西河鎮”
- Chinese: “阿西河镇”
- Dagbani: “Athi River (town)”
- Dagbani: “Athi River”
- Dutch: “Athi River”
- Finnish: “Athi River”
- French: “Athi River”
- French: “Mavoko”
- German: “Athi River”
- Japanese: “アシリバー”
- Japanese: “マヴォコ”
- Mongolian: “Ати Ривер”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mavoko”
- Norwegian: “Mavoko”
- Polish: “Athi River”
- Russian: “Ати-Ривер”
- Spanish: “Athi River”
- Swahili: “Athi River, Kenya”
- Swahili: “Athi River”
- Swedish: “Mavoko”
- Tamil: “ஆதி நதி”
- Ukrainian: “Аті-Ривер”
- Urdu: “دریائے اتھی”
- Zulu: “Athi River, Idolobha”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Athi River”. Photo: DEMOSH, CC BY 2.0.