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| Image number: | 2124 |
| Feature : | people and water |
| Grouping : | river erosion |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2007 |
| Locality : | Kavimvira |
| Country : | D.R.Congo |
| Region - tribe : | Uvira |
| Physiographic region : | Rift-Tanganyika |
| Notice : | The Kavimvira descends the Mitumba rift shoulder. During big flash floods, stream floods, exceptional big boulders are transported. Because of the absence of a widespread water pipe system in town, people come to the river bed for water use like for laundry and even for drinking. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 2124. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |