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Image number: 2131
Feature : landslide
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2007
Locality : Mulongwe - Kalimabenge
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Uvira
Physiographic region : Rift-Tanganyika
Notice : The Mitumba Range between Mulongwe and Kalimabenge is affected by huge active landsliding. On the hillside in the middle, recent scars of a huge soilslip are visible. On the right hill, the township of Uvira is expanding.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2131.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"