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Image number: 2592
Feature : buried ditch
Grouping : runoff
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2010
Locality : Bujumbura airport
Country : Burundi
Region - tribe : Bujumbura
Physiographic region : Rift-Tanganyika
Notice : Runoff coefficients are increasing by changing soil use and urbanisation. This leads to more runoff than before. Ditch along the road filled by sediments deposited by heavy runoff Slopes.Natural hazard. Natural risk. 12/01/2010
Reference : Nahimana, Louis,   2010    Image 2592.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"