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Image number: 2760
Feature : flood
Grouping : river dynamics
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2010
Locality : pont Rwanguba sur la rivière Rutshuru
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Rutshuru
Physiographic region : Rift Kivu
Notice : The Rutshuru river is normally 7 m wide, the lenght of the bridge Rwanguba. As a result of two weeks of intense rains, the river channal was widening in February 2010 and the bridge will become in danger. As a result of increasing runoff, rivers show increasing floods and erode their bed. Natural hazard. Natural risk.
Reference : BADRIYO Agama Innocent,   2010    Image 2760.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"