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Image number: 2447
Feature : gully prevention
Grouping : gully
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2009
Locality : Maman Mobutu district
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Kinshasa
Physiographic region : Inter Nsele-Inkisi
Notice : Gully at the Maman Mobutu district swallowed since 2004 more than fifty houses. The picture shows the gully head. Natural hazard, natural risk. The giant step-like runoff drain, built to prevent gullying did not function.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2009    Image 2447.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"