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Thomson’s Falls

Thomson's Falls is a 74-metre waterfall on the River in Central Rift Valley , a few kilometres from Lake Ol Bolossat, which drains from the .
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Photo: Guillaume 1995, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nyahururu.

Photo: Raidarmax, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town in , lying north east of . means waterfall or windy or place of storms, in the Maasai language. It is located in both and Nyandarua counties.

Thomson’s Falls

Latitude
0.04413° or 0° 2′ 39″ north
Longitude
36.37047° or 36° 22′ 14″ east
Elevation
2,305 metres (7,562 feet)
Open location code
6GGR29VC+J5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 429844548
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map feature
waterway=­waterfall
Geo­Names ID
12503651
Wiki­data ID
Q2748822
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Satellite Map

Discover Thomson’s Falls from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swahili—“Thomson’s Falls” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Cascades de Thomson”
  • French: “chutes de Thomson”
  • French: “Chutes de Thomson”
  • French: “Thomson’s Falls”
  • German: “Nyahururu Falls”
  • Japanese: “トムソンの滝”
  • Kazakh: “Ньяхуруру (сарқырама)”
  • Kazakh: “Ньяхуруру”
  • Lithuanian: “Tomsono krioklys”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thomsonfallene”
  • Norwegian: “Thomsonfallene”
  • Polish: “Wodospad Thompsona”
  • Polish: “Wodospad Thomsona”
  • Russian: “Ньяхуруру (водопад)”
  • Russian: “Ньяхуруру”
  • Spanish: “Cataratas de Thomson”
  • Swahili: “Maporomoko ya Thomson”

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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 “Thomson’s Falls”. Photo: Guillaume 1995, CC BY-SA 3.0.