Fort Ternan
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Fort Ternan is a small town in Nyando District
Nyando District
Nyando district is a fairly new district in Kenya which broke away from Kisumu District in Nyanza Province in 1998. Nyando district borders the Rift Valley Province. The district is named after the Nyando River....

, Nyanza Province
Nyanza Province
Nyanza Province of Kenya, is one of Kenya's eight administrative provinces. It is located in the southwest part of Kenya around Lake Victoria. Nyanza includes part of the eastern edge of Lake Victoria and is inhabited predominantly by the Luo. There are also Bantu-speaking tribes such as the...

, Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

 located 50 kilometres east of Kisumu
Kisumu
Kisumu is a port city in western Kenya at , with a population of 355,024 . It is the third largest city in Kenya, the principal city of western Kenya, the immediate former capital of Nyanza Province and the headquarters of Kisumu County. It has a municipal charter but no city charter...

 and five kilometres east of Koru
Koru, Kenya
Koru is a village in Nyando District, Nyanza Province, Kenya. It forms an electoral ward of Muhoroni Constituency and Muhoroni town council . Koru is also a location in the Muhoroni division of Nyando District . Elevation 1540m.- Transport :...

. Fort Ternan is located adjacent the western border of Rift Valley Province . Fort Ternan forms a ward of Muhoroni Constituency
Muhoroni Constituency
Muhoroni is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of three constituencies of Nyando District.The constituency was established for the 1988 elections, when it was split from the Nyando Constituency .- Members of Parliament :- Wards :...

 and Muhoroni
Muhoroni
Muhoroni is a town in Kenya. It is part of Nyando District of Nyanza Province. Muhoroni hosts a town council. It has an urban population of 13,664 and a total population of 31,148 . Muhoroni has a railway station along the Nairobi-Kisumu Railway. The town is located 50 kilometres east of Kisumu,...

 town council . Fort Ternan is also a location
Locations of Kenya
||Locations are a type of administrative region in Kenya. Location are a fourth level subdivision below Provinces, Districts and Divisions. Locations are further subdivided into Sub-locations . As of 1999 census there were 2,427 locations and 6,612 sublocations in Kenya .Each division in Kenya is...

 in the Muhoroni division
Divisions of Kenya
||The districts of Kenya are divided into 262 divisions . Divisions of Kenya are further subdivided into locations. The divisions are listed below, by district:-Baringo District:*Kabarnet*Kabartonjo*Marigat*Mochongoi*Mogotio*Nginyang...

 of Nyando District .

Transport

It is served by a railway station on the branchline to Kisumu on the national railway system. The railway is heavily graded in the vicinity of this station.

Paleontology

Fossils of the specimen Kenyapithecus were first found by Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa. He also played a major role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife there...

in Fort Ternan in 1962
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