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Image number: 2090
Feature : city expansion
Grouping : river erosion
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2007
Locality : Nyakivumba, Bujumbura
Country : Burundi
Region - tribe : Bujumbura
Physiographic region : Rift-Tanganyika
Notice : The agglomaration of the city of Bujumbura expands into the highlands to the East of the town. Houses are often constructed before road and drainage or other infrastructure like electricity is provided. During that stage the expansion belt is heavily affected by all kinds of erosion.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2090.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"