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Categories: Disambiguation View over Lake Turkana Lake Turkana, formerly known as Lake Rudolf, is a lake in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya (although the far northern end of the lake crosses into Ethiopia), which covers a surface area of 6405 km² (2473 mi²), making it the worlds largest permanent desert...

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Carmelite presence in Turkana, Kenya (2980 words)
	The Turkana desert is an area of approximately 70,000 square kilometres of desert and semi desert territory in Northwest Kenya, East Africa.
	The Turkana desert is bounded on the North by Sudan, on the West by Uganda, on the East by Lake Turkana (formerly Lake Rudolph) and separated from the remainder of Kenya by the high mountains of West Pokot.
	Since Turkana society is polygamous and since a substantial bride price is payable to the father of the bride on the occasion of marriage every father ambitions a wealthy marriage for his daughters.

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