The Chyulu Hills volcanic field in southern Kenya covers an area of over 2,800 km² and is located around 150 km E of the southern Kenya Rift Valley. More recent activity has occurred in the southern part of the field, containing a 50-km-long main central ridge with numerous cones and craters seen here in this 3 February 2019 Sentinel-2 satellite image (N at the top).

Satellite image courtesy of Copernicus Sentinel Data, 2019.

This image is made available under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license terms.

Keywords: volcanic field | lava flow | rift zone

Chyulu Hills