Matayos

Matayos
Matayos
Location of Matayos Area, Busia County, Kenya.
Coordinates: 0°22′N 34°10′E / 0.36°N 34.17°E / 0.36; 34.17
CountryKenya
CountyBusia County
Elevation
1,214 m (3,983 ft)
  Density1,000/km2 (3,000/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)

Matayos (also Matayo's) is a settlement in the Busia County of Kenya's former Western Province. Matayos is a small township of about two thousand inhabitants along the B1 road (Kisumu-Busia Highway), sixteen kilometres from the Busia border point, and about two kilometres east of the Sio River bridge. Matayos Division, whose seat is at Matayos centre is a very small borough covering the stretch of about twenty-two kilometres from Korinda junction near Busia town at its extreme west-point to the Rakite stream depression near Bumala junction to the east. The division is home to about eighty-thousand people.