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Kakamega

Kenya

Watercolour of Kakamega, Kenya. The gateway to the ancient Kakamega Rainforest and the sacred Crying Stone of Ilesi, with Crying Stone of Ilesi and Kakamega Forest National Reserve.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Crying Stone of Ilesi; Kakamega Forest National Reserve; Isiukhu River; Luhya; Kakamega; lush equatorial rainforest flora; Luhya
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking across the terraced green tea fields toward the towering wall of the Kakamega Forest with the Crying Stone rising in the landscape, showing tea bush foliage and ferns in the foreground, the rolling green tea rows, Isiukhu River, and the Crying Stone in the middle-ground, and the colossal, mist-veiled rainforest tree canopy fading in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the multi-tiered canopy of the Kakamega Rainforest, emerald tea plantations, and lush roadside ferns.
Guarded against
Not Kisumu, Eldoret, or Nairobi
Population1,867,579Wikidata: 91,778
Coordinates0.28°N, 34.75°E
Time zoneAfrica/NairobiUTC+3
Solar noon12:41clock runs 0.7 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Kakamega and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Taiohae, French Polynesia — 1,116 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

KampalaUG241 km
NairobiKE288 km
MwanzaTZ373 km
KigaliRW577 km
JubaSS618 km
GitegaBI677 km
DodomaTZ726 km
MombasaKE728 km

Twinned cities

Wikidata records no twinned cities for Kakamega inside this atlas.

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