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Image number: 2094
Feature : river incision
Grouping : towns and environment
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. This happens in the extension zone of bujumbura and many constructions are endangered
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2094.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"