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| Image number: | 2043 |
| Feature : | river |
| Grouping : | river erosion |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1986 |
| Locality : | Kadohokwa River, Rwaza Hill |
| Country : | Rwanda |
| Region - tribe : | Butare |
| Physiographic region : | Interlacustrine belt |
| Notice : | The Kadahokwa river is changing his regime. Proportionally more runoff contributes to the discharge what leads to increased flash floods, stream floods, river floods, to which the river bed has to adapt, what explains the lateral erosion. Gullying! |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1986 Image 2043. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |