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Image number: 1443
Feature : stone bunds
Grouping : soil conservation
Discipline : agriculture
Year : 1996
Locality : Guete, Bankass
Country : Mali
Region - tribe : Bandiagara - Dogon
Physiographic region : W-African Savanna belt
Notice : 'Digues perméables' hold certain amount of sediment and enhance water infiltration in the soil.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1996    Image 1443.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"