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Image number: 2096
Feature : paved road
Grouping : towns and environment
Discipline : Environment
Year : 2007
Locality : Nyakivumba, Bujumbura
Country : Burundi
Region - tribe : Bujumbura
Physiographic region : Rift-Tanganyika
Notice : The town of Bujumbura expands along the Nyakivumba valley. In this area a nice road infrastructure is in place. The paved road allows a certain infiltration of water so that runoff is hampered. Notic also the drainage ditch along the road. Extension zones of towns are generally subjected to high runoff production and inundations and gully erosion. Notice also the electricity infrastructure. Flood. Natural hazard. Natural risk
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2096.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"