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Image number: 2071
Feature : unstable river bed
Grouping : river erosion
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2007
Locality : RN 7, Kanyosha
Country : Burundi
Region - tribe : Bujumbura
Physiographic region : Mugamba Tanganyika rift shoulder
Notice : The Kanyosha river descends from the Tanganyika rift shoulder SE of Bujumbura. The river shows a high tendency to incise but incision is counteracted by slope instabilities and mass mouvements.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2071.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"