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| Image number: | 2119 |
| Feature : | river incision |
| Grouping : | towns and environment |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2007 |
| Locality : | Ntahangwa |
| Country : | Burundi |
| Region - tribe : | Bujumbura |
| Physiographic region : | Rift-Tanganyika |
| Notice : | The Ntahangwa river comes from the rift shoulder and is characterized by increasing flooding, even flash floods, which lead to some vertical and more especially lateral erosion. By lateral migration, the river endangers the houses in this expansion zone of Bujumbura. In the undercut river bank, old river deposits are visible. They form an old river terrace. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 2119. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |