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Nyahururu

Nyahururu is a town in , lying north east of . The town derives its name from the Maasai word e-naiwurruwurr, meaning waterfall or windy or place of storms.
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  • Type: Town with 37,700 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Nyahururu Falls”, “Thompsons Falls”, “Thomson’s Falls”, and “Thorason’s Falls”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Thomson’s Falls.

Waterfall
Photo: Guillaume 1995, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 .

Nyahururu

Latitude
0.0333° or 0° 1′ 60″ north
Longitude
36.3666° or 36° 21′ 60″ east
Population
37,700
Elevation
2,373 metres (7,785 feet)
Open location code
6GGR29M8+8J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 44914613
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
183027
Wiki­data ID
Q948344
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Nyahururu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نياهورورو”
  • Catalan: “Nyahururu”
  • Cebuano: “Nyahururu”
  • Chinese: “尼亞胡魯魯”
  • Danish: “Nyahururu”
  • Dutch: “Nyahururu”
  • Finnish: “Nyahururu”
  • French: “Nyahururu”
  • Georgian: “ნიაჰურურუ”
  • German: “Nyahururu”
  • Greek: “Νυαχουρούρου”
  • Greek: “Τόμσον Φωλς”
  • Hebrew: “ניהורורו”
  • Irish: “Nyahururu”
  • Italian: “Nyahururu”
  • Japanese: “ニャフルル”
  • Korean: “냐후루루”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nyahururu”
  • Norwegian: “Nyahururu”
  • Persian: “نیاهورورو، کنیا”
  • Persian: “نیاهورورو”
  • Polish: “Nyahururu”
  • Portuguese: “Nyahururu”
  • Romanian: “Nyahururu”
  • Spanish: “Nyahururu”
  • Swahili: “Nyahururu”
  • Swedish: “Nyahururu”
  • Urdu: “نیاہورورو”
  • Zulu: “Nyahururu”

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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 “Nyahururu”. Photo: Raidarmax, CC BY-SA 4.0.