Amboseli National Park is located in Kajiado South Constituency in Kajiado County and covers an area of about 39,206 hectares (392 km2; 151 sq. mi) in size at the core of an 8,000 square kilometres (3,100 sq. mi) ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya-Tanzania border and is famous for being the best place in Africa to get close to free-ranging elephants among other wildlife species. Amboseli is characterized by it's big skies and far horizons combined with swampy springs and dry and dusty earth trampled by hundreds of animals.
The two major rainfall seasons typical to Kenya also loosely apply to Amboseli, with the months from April to May and September to November seeing brief rainly spells nonetheless accompanied by hours of sunshine.
Some basic geographical facts are as below:
Altitude: above 1,180 m approx ;
Rainfall: mean annual is 354mm with peaks in November and April;
Temperature range: 16–32 °C (61–90 °F).
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