Karia
Karia is a locality in Nyeri County, Kenya and has an elevation of 1,801 metres. Karia is situated nearby to the area Kiangi, as well as near the locality Kiamwathi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Outspan Hotel.
Outspan Hotel
Hotel
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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. Outspan Hotel is situated 3 km northwest of Karia.
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. It is the county headquarters of Nyeri County and was the central administrative headquarters of the country's former Central Province.
Kiganjo
Village
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 7 km northeast of Karia.
Marua
Village
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. Marua is situated 10 km east of Karia.
Karia
- Type: Locality
- Location: Nyeri County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-0.44003° or 0° 26′ 24″ southLongitude
36.95776° or 36° 57′ 28″ eastElevation
1,801 metres (5,909 feet)Open location code
6GFRHX55+X4GeoNames ID
11830790
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