The Suguta River is a seasonal river in the
Great Rift Valley
The Great Rift Valley is a series of contiguous geographic trenches, approximately in total length, that runs from Lebanon in Asia to Mozambique in Southeast Africa. While the name continues in some usages, it is rarely used in geology as it ...
in
Kenya
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(Africa), directly south of
Lake Turkana.
It flows northward through the
Suguta Valley in the rainy season, forming the temporary Lake Alablad, a
dry lake that combines with
Lake Logipi
Lake Logipi is a saline, alkaline lake that lies at the northern end of the arid Suguta Valley in the northern Kenya Rift. It is separated from Lake Turkana by the Barrier Volcano, Barrier volcanic complex, a group of young volcanoes that last eru ...
at the northern end of the valley.
The Suguta River originates in a stream of near-boiling water that emerges from the side of
Mount Silali, an extinct volcano.
Some geologists speculate that the
Kapedo hot spring, which drops through a set of waterfalls to the Sugutu river, is the outlet from
Lake Baringo
Lake Baringo is, after Lake Turkana, the most northern of the Kenyan Rift Valley lakes, with a surface area of and an elevation of . The lake is fed by several rivers: the Molo, Perkerra and Ol Arabel. It has no obvious outlet; the waters ar ...
to the south.
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At one point the Suguta River passes between two volcanoes and is fed from both sides by hot springs.
In places the banks of the Suguta River are lined with palms.
The river and its tributaries are home to a cichlid, the Suguta tilapia (''Oreochromis niloticus sugutae'').
Although the river dries up after the rainy season, the fish survive in pools.
The river is also home to numerous crocodiles.][
Large flocks of flamingos inhabit the edge of the river.]
See also
* Lake Suguta
References
Rivers of Kenya
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