Mount Kulal is a eroded-down extinct volcano located in northern Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

, just east of Lake Turkana

Lake Turkana

Lake Turkana , formerly known as Lake Rudolf, is a lake in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia. It is the world's largest permanent desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake...

. The mountain is 2,285 meters high. The lakeside town of Loiyangalani

Loiyangalani

Loiyangalani is a small town located on the southeastern coast of Lake Turkana in Kenya. The town has 1000 inhabitants . Loiyangalani means "a place of many trees" in the native Samburu tongue. It is home to Turkana people and was founded near a freshwater spring in the 1960s where the El Molo...

 is located 50 kilometres west of Mount Kulal.

Mount Kulal has been a Biosphere Reserve

Biosphere reserve

The Man and the Biosphere Programme of UNESCO was established in 1971 to promote interdisciplinary approaches to management, research and education in ecosystem conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.-Development:...

 since 1978

Mount Kulal is the only place where Kulal White-eye (Zosterops kulalensis) has been found

External links

• http://www.kilimanjaro.cc/eam/kulal.htm