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| Image number: | 2093 |
| Feature : | river incision |
| Grouping : | river erosion |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2007 |
| Locality : | Nyakivumba, Bujumbura |
| Country : | Burundi |
| Region - tribe : | Bujumbura |
| Physiographic region : | Rift-Tanganyika |
| Notice : | The Nyakivumba receives a lot of drainage water from a road, upslope. Since, the river has started to incise vertically. The oversteepened slopes are affected by soil slips and other mass movements. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 2093. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |