Soil Survey of the Songor Area Nyanza and Rift Valley Provinces 1991

Abstract

The Songhor survey area comprises about 203 square miles or nearly 30,000 acres of land on the eastern end of the Kano Plain of Central Nyanza, and contiguous foothills and valleys of the Nandi escarpment, on the north, and of the Tinderet Highlands on the east. The western edge is a north-south line about 18 miles east of Kisumu and 1,400 yards west of Kibigori railway station, where it joins the Sir Alexander Gibb survey of the Kano Plains; the eastern boundary, 34 miles east of Kisumu, follows the meridian 35° 15' E. latitude; the northern limit is the Nandi escarpment; and the southern boundary follows the Kisumu-Muhoroni road to Kiligis market, and thence to the eastern edge of the area along the boundary of European settlement. The equator traverses the entire length of the northern part of the area, nearly 4 miles north of Songhor Post Office and 5 miles north of Kibigori railway station.