This video on Facebook purporting to show Daraja Mungu natural bridge in Baringo County, Kenya, is FALSE.

The footage on the natural bridge is accompanied by the text, “Serenity of Baringo county with Natural bridge the famous “Daraja Mungu (sic).”

‘Daraja (la) Mungu’ is Swahili for “bridge of God” in reference to a naturally-occurring bridge. In Kenya, such bridges are found in Kirinyaga, Kiambu, and Baringo counties.

But does the video on Facebook show the Daraja Mungu bridge in Baringo?

A reverse image search of one of the keyframes from the video brings up several results, including a video that shows that the bridge is in China.

A keyword search also leads to a video similar to the one in review, which is about the natural feature is found in China.

Further investigation brings up videos of the bridge, as seen here and here, showing that the phenomenon is indeed in China and not Baringo County.

PesaCheck has looked into a video on Facebook purporting to show Daraja Mungu bridge in Baringo County and found it to be FALSE.

This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.

By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.

Have you spotted what you think is fake or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content.

This fact-check was written by PesaCheck Fact-Checker Harriet Ogayoand edited by PesaCheck Senior Copy Editor Cédrick Irakoze and acting Chief Copy Editor Francis Mwaniki.

The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck Managing Editor Doreen Wainainah.

PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visitpesacheck.org.

PesaCheck is an initiative of Code for Africa, through its innovateAFRICA fund, with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie, in partnership with a coalition of local African media and other civic watchdog organisations.