Trans Mara District was an
administrative district
Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-loca ...
in the former
Rift Valley Province
Rift Valley Province ( sw, Mkoa wa Bonde la Ufa) of Kenya, bordering Uganda, was one of Kenya's eight provinces, before the Kenyan general election, 2013.
Rift Valley Province was the largest and one of the most economically important provinces i ...
of
Kenya
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. Its capital town was
Kilgoris. The district had a population of 170,591 (1999 census) and an area of 2,846 kmĀ
It was created in 1994, when Trans Mara District was split from
Narok District.
The
Mara Triangle
The Mara Triangle is the southwestern part of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, and is managed by the not-for-profit organisation The Mara Conservancy on behalf of Trans-Mara County Council.
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(part of the
Masai Mara
Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelled Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honor of the Maasai people, the ancest ...
reserve) is located in Trans-Mara District. The district had only one local authority, Trans Mara county council.
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was the only constituency of the district.
Under the 2010
Constitution of Kenya and the new devolved form of government, the Trans Mara area was merged into
Narok County
Narok County is a county in Kenya with an estimated population of 1,157,873 according to 2019 Census, with the dominant ethnic group being the Maasai. Its capital and largest town is Narok. The other major urban centre in Narok County is Kilgo ...
. It continues as the Kilgoris Constituency electorally and administratively.
Its name refers to the territory "across the Mara River" from the perspective of the rest of Narok County. The term "Trans Mara" is still used to refer to the geographical area.
External links
Aridland.go.keReliefweb.int
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Former districts of Kenya
Narok County