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Image number: 2761
Feature : spring flood
Grouping : spring
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2010
Locality : Primary school Mbigo at Rangira
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Rutshuru
Physiographic region : Rift Kivu
Notice : After two weeks of rains in February 2010, new springs appeared at the foot of the hill behind the primary school of Mbigo. The spring discharge was so high as to create an inundation of 70 cm deep.The picture shows the situation two days after the spring flood.
Reference : BADRIYO Agama Innocent,   2010    Image 2761.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"