Sacho is a township 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 ...

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. It is located along

Kabarnet Kabarnet is a town in Baringo County, Kenya. According to the 2019 census, the town had a population of 22,474 with 10,943 (48.8%) of them being males and 11,531(51.1%) of them being females. Geography At an altitude of 1,815 metres (5,957 fe ...

Eldama Ravine Eldama Ravine (sometimes known by the short form E/Ravine) is a town in Baringo County, Kenya, a few miles north of the equator, geographical coordinates 0° 30' 0" North, 35° 43' 0" East. It was established as an administrative point by Briti ...

road 24 kilometres south of Kabarnet and 6 kilometres north of Tenges. Sacho is the headquarters of ''Sacho division'', an

administrative division Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divi ...

in Baringo County. Sacho division has a population of 11,856 (1999 census ). Sacho division has the following

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: Chepkero, Kabasis, Kibonjos, Sacho Mosop and Sacho Soi. Sacho is part of Baringo county Council and Baringo Central Constituency.Electoral Commission of Kenya
''Registration centres by electoral area and constituency''

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, the second president of Kenya, was born in Sacho Kurieng'wo village, near Sacho High School, a private secondary school that he later owned.

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