Samburu, Coast Province
Administratively, it is one of five sub-counties of Kwale County. Samburu sub county is pre-dorminantly made up of the Duruma sub-tribe of the larger Mijikenda Community along the coast. Samburu derived its name from the word 'chimburu' which is the Owl.It was mispronounced by the white man when he came across a Duruma elderly man called Bati Kalinga during the construction of the Kenya Uganda railway line in 1897. He was asked through a translator what he was doing in that area,his reply was that,he lived there with many owls(chimburu)...and the white man mispronounced the word to Samburu.
Transport
It is served by a station on the national railway network and the Mombasa-Nairobi highway.
kinagoni secondary samburu Sub county kwale county
Samburu subcounty should not be confused with Samburu County located elsewhere in Kenya, or Samburu National Reserve, located in that district.
Details
- Altitude
See also
References
- ^ UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): Kenya_AdminLevels_1-4
- ^ "Altitude.org | Find any altitude". www.altitude.org. Archived from the original on 2010-07-09.
- ^ "Google Maps".
03°46′00″S 39°17′00″E / 3.76667°S 39.28333°E
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