Koru is a

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centre in

Kisumu County Kisumu County is one of 47 counties in the Republic of Kenya. Its borders follow those of the original Kisumu District, one of the former administrative districts of the former Nyanza Province in western Kenya. Its headquarters is Kisumu City ...

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(0.1833° S, 35.2667° E). It forms an electoral ward of

Muhoroni Constituency Muhoroni is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of seven constituencies of Kisumu County. The constituency was established for the 1988 elections, when it was split from the Nyando Constituency.Nyando ConstituencyAbout Nyando Constituenc ...

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Muhoroni Muhoroni is a town in Kisumu County, Kenya. Muhoroni hosts a town council. It has an urban population of 13,664 and a total population of 31,148 (1999 censu. Muhoroni has a railway station along the Kenya Railways Corporation, Nairobi-Kisumu Ra ...

town council. Koru is also a

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in the Muhoroni

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. It is at an elevation of 1540m.

Transport

The

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is served by a station on a lightly built branchline of the national railway system. In 2009, this branchline was upgraded. Koru is located between the stations of

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Fort Ternan Fort Ternan is a small town in Kericho County, Kenya, located 50 kilometres east of Kisumu and five kilometres east of Koru. It is named after Col. Trevor Ternan C.M.G.D.S.O. Fort Ternan is located at the western border of the former Rift Valley Pr ...

.Rough Guide Map of Kenya

Paleontology

The first fossil remains,

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, is a primate species. It was found in Koru in 1909 by a gold prospector.

Notable people

* Robert Ouko, Kenyan foreign minister, was murdered near his home in Koru and his body was found at the nearby Got Alila hill.

References

Populated places in Nyanza Province Kisumu County {{NyanzaKE-geo-stub