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Image number: 1487
Feature : lake
Grouping : lakes, reservoirs, ponds and wells
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1996
Locality : Yamé river at Ounjougou
Country : Mali
Region - tribe : Bandiagara - Dogon
Physiographic region : W-African Savanna belt
Notice : The Yamé river is intermttent. During the dry season small lakes survive behind Bandiagara sandstone banks which acts as dams.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1996    Image 1487.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"