Mount Elgon National Park is a national park 140 kilometers (87 mi) northeast of Lake Victoria. The park covers an area of 1,279 square kilometers (494 sq mi) and is bisected by the border of Kenya and Uganda. The Ugandan part of the park covers 1,110 square kilometers (430 sq mi) while the Kenyan part covers 169 square kilometers (65 sq mi). The Kenyan part of the park was gazetted in 1968, the Ugandan part in 1992.
wild Life
Elephants and buffalo can be found on the lower slopes. The park is also home to a variety of small antelope and duiker, as well as forest monkeys, including the black-and-white colobus and blue monkey. Red-tailed monkey has been reported after being thought to be locally extinct. Both leopard and hyena existed there in the late 1990s.
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