Mukuuri

The administrative region begins from the stone cliffs of Nthûngû waterfalls, all the way to Nthenge Njerû falls, through the famous Kirimiri Forest, stretching to the historic Gogo Salt lick, bordering Gitare.

Gogo Salt Lick is located on five-acre grassy meadows, one kilometre from Mukuuri township, at the base of a ridge called Mürurîrî.

According to the Mbeere Historical Texts by Prof Mwaniki Kabeca (2005), Gogo is the place where Mwenendega, the founder of Embu tribe, met his wife Nthara.

They include former Runyenjes MP and later Embu Governor and chairman of the Council of Governors Martin Nyaga Wambora, KASNEB founder and former Embu North MP Hon Stanley Nyaga Kithûng'a and Lee Njiru, the long-serving head of the Presidential Press Service and former Private Secretary of Kenya's Second President Daniel Arap Moi .

Others are academics like Kenyan geneticist Prof Njiruh Nthakanio, Kagaari North MCA Muchangi Mwariama, former MCA Sicily Njiru, the journalist Peter Munaita, veteran (Retired) Embu Knut secretary general Mohammed Mwaniki Gakinya, and the long-serving Kagaari Ward councillor and Embu County Council chairman, the late Alexander Njeru Ngari.

There is also the late freedom fighter General Kubu Kubu and religious leaders like former Embu Anglican Bishop Moses Njue (1992-2006),[2] Embu Bishop of National Independent Church of Kenya (Nica) Bishop Amos Njiru (1993*-2003*), the late Archpriest John Njue Nthakanio who established the Orthodox Church in Embu County, and business leaders including Richard Nyaga wa Stanley,[3] who served as MD of national carrier Kenya Airways (1981-1985) and later steered privatisation of the airline again as its Managing Director in 1999–2003.