Navakholo is a small town in
Kakamega County
Kakamega County is a county in the former Western Province of Kenya and borders Vihiga County to the South, Siaya County to the West, Bungoma and Trans Nzoia counties to the North and Nandi and Uasin Gishu counties to the East. Its capital an ...
in the
Western Province
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*Western Province (Kenya)
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of Kenya. It has a business center called Center (locally pronounced phonetically as "Senda"). The main language spoken is
Nyala
The lowland nyala or simply nyala (''Tragelaphus angasii'') is a spiral-horned antelope native to southern Africa. It is a species of the family Bovidae and genus ''Tragelaphus'', previously placed in genus ''Nyala''. It was first described i ...
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The town sits on the main earth road connecting Malava town to the East and Sianda Market to the West. It is the administrative centre for Navakholo Sub-county within Kakamega County. It houses a District Commissioner, Police Station with an Officer Commanding Police Division, a sub-district hospital and a market that operates every Saturday.
The town has grid electricity.
Navakholo has no real road network linking it to Kakamega town. The network becomes temporarily unavailable for use when it rains.
Populated places in Western Province (Kenya)
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