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Image number: 2442
Feature : Congo River
Grouping : river deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2009
Locality : Maluku
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Stanley-Pool
Physiographic region : Inter Nsele-Inkisi
Notice : Maluku is a harbour just upstream of the Stanley-pool. The river valley is asymmetrical. Flat high tide deposits at the RDC-side, huge escarpments at the Brazzaville-side of the stream. The stream is an important transport axis of RDC. Motor boats, canoes. Economy
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2009    Image 2442.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"