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| Image number: | 1968 |
| Feature : | rainbow |
| Grouping : | microclimate |
| Discipline : | botany |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Victoria Falls |
| Country : | Zimbabwe |
| Region - tribe : | Zambezi valley |
| Physiographic region : | Kalahari sand plateau |
| Notice : | The clouds of water vapour at the falls create a particular microclimate. The clouds supply the vegetation with more water than it receives by normal precipitation and a tropical forest develops in stead of a dry miombo forest. Forests, partly supplied by clouds are called a cloud forest. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 1968. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |