Athi River

Athi River is a metropolis out of doors Nairobi, Kenya in Machakos County. The metropolis is known as after the Athi River, which passes through. It is also called Mavoko. Athi River hosts the Mavoko Municipal Council and is the headquarters of Mavoko division, that is part of Machakos County. The town's population is 137,211 2009 census, and it's far nonetheless developing because of its proximity to the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi. Mavoko changed into carved off the Nairobi County Council in 1963, while the latter was disbanded. Mavoko municipality has six wards. All those wards belong to Kathiani constituency, which has a total of ten wards. The ultimate 4 wards are inside Masaku County Council.

The metropolis is quite industrialised for Kenya. There are six cement factories placed within the town: Bamburi Cement, Mombasa Cement, East Africa Portland Cement Company, Savannah Cement, National Cement and Athi River Mining. Athi River has a railway station built in 1920 along the Uganda Railway, from Mombasa to Kisumu. There is also a brand new railway station at the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway.