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Image number: 2251
Feature : terracing
Grouping : lakes, reservoirs, ponds and wells
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2007
Locality : Rwezero
Country : Rwanda
Region - tribe : Lake Muhazi
Physiographic region : Interlacustrine belt
Notice : Big portions of the steep slopes in the Byumba region are actually transformed in bench terraces (terrassement radical). Here the example along Lake Muhazi. Soil and water conservation.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2251.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"