Mochongoi is a community and a division in

Baringo County Baringo County is one of the 47 Counties of Kenya, counties in Kenya. It is located in the former Rift Valley Province. Its headquarters and largest town is Kabarnet. The county is home to Lake Baringo, Lake Bogoria and Lake Kamnarok. Geographi ...

Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. ...

. It is also an electoral ward in Marigat subcounty. The town lies in the northern end of the

Aberdare Range The Aberdare Range (formerly the Sattima Range, Kikuyu: ''Nyandarua'') is a long mountain range of upland, north of Kenya's capital Nairobi with an average elevation of . It straddles the counties of Nyandarua, Nyeri, Murang'a, Kiambu and ...

and is a relatively new settlement in what was the

Ol Arabel Ol Arabel (or Olarabel) is a river in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya that feeds Lake Baringo. It gives its name to a forest covering its headwaters and to a region. River The Ngusero and Ol Arabel rivers drain the northern end of the Aberdare Ran ...

forest reserve. The Ol Arabel Forest Reserve is part of the

Marmanet forests Marmanet is a town in Kenya's Laikipia County. It is situated approximately 15 kilometres north of Nyahururu on the Nyahururu- Rumuruti Road., and is home to Marmanet Farcmers Co-operative Society, which is one of the largest and oldest farmer ...

on the eastern escarpment of the Rift Valley, north of

Nyahururu Nyahururu (formerly known as Thomson Falls) is a town in Kenya, lying north east of Nakuru. The town derives its name from the Maasai word e-naiwurruwurr, meaning waterfall or windy or place of storms. It is located in both Laikipia County and ...

. The forest reserve, which is part of the upper catchment of the Ol Arabel River, once covered , but were excised in 1993. No boundary plan was defined. As a result, about 80% of the forest had been settled by the Mochongoi settlement scheme by 2008. The division covers . In 2001 the population was 11,927. The community includes a secondary school. Maize farmers have protested that middlemen were not paying adequate prices. In October 2007 President

Mwai Kibaki Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki (15 November 1931 – 21 April 2022) was a Kenyan politician who served as the third President of Kenya from December 2002 until April 2013. He served in various leadership positions in Kenya's government including ...

said the government would pave the road from Mochongoi to Marigat so farmers could get their produce to market more easily.

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Populated places in Baringo County {{RiftValleyKE-geo-stub