The Ngorongoro Crater

The Ngorongoro Crater

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania is located west of Arusha in the Crater Highlands area and is named after the world’s largest inactive volcanic caldera, Ngorongoro Crater in the area. The area is both protected and became a World Heritage Site in 1979. There are approximately 25,000 large animals living in the crater, including black rhinoceros, buffalo, hippopotamus and zebra. There is a large lake within the crater, called Lake Magadi, which is often inhabited by thousands of flamingos. Outside of the Crater is a strong population of Cheetah and Lions, and the annual migrations passed through moving south into the area in December and moving north in June. Also protected within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the plains are one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world, Oldurai or Olduvai Gorges. They are considered as the seat of humanity, after the earliest known specimens of the human genus was discovered.