Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley
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How it came to be
Lakes Nakuru, Bogoria and Elementaita are shallow soda lakes on the floor of the Great Rift Valley. About 10,000 years ago they formed one deep freshwater lake, which dried up and left the three behind.
In 1961 a national park was created around Lake Nakuru; it was later fenced as a sanctuary for black rhinos. The Lake Bogoria area was the home of the Endorois people, who were moved off it in the 1970s. In 2009 the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights ordered the Kenyan government to restore their land.
Up to four million lesser flamingos move between the three lakes, the most important feeding ground for the species in the world, and hot springs and geysers break out along the shores. The lakes were inscribed in 2011.
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