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Image number: 2534
Feature : gully in town
Grouping : gully
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2009
Locality : Maman Mobutu district
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Kinshasa
Physiographic region : Inter Nsele-Inkisi
Notice : The Maman Mobutu gully is alimentated with runoff, developing right on the flat hilltop of the holliday resort of the REGIDESO. It is thought that residential villas evacuate also much of their water under the door to the road. Concentration of all this runoff along one runoff drainage line creates discharges, able to catastrophic gullying. Natural Hazard. Natural risk.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2009    Image 2534.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"