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Image number: 306
Feature : well
Grouping : water table
Discipline : hydrogeology
Year : 1977
Locality : Rya Murari
Country : Rwanda
Region - tribe : Byumba
Physiographic region : Interlacustrine belt
Notice : Byumba plateau: on top of the hills, a water table is often present, perched upon the laterite soil, especially when the latter shows locally a depression-like configuration
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1977    Image 306.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"