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Image number: 2097
Feature : gully
Grouping : gully
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2007
Locality : Mutanga-Bujumbura
Country : Burundi
Region - tribe : Bujumbura
Physiographic region : Rift-Tanganyika
Notice : Upslope from the Lyceum 'Clarté de Notre-Dame' à Mutanga, a deep lavaka-like gully is developed more or less perpendicular to the slope. The gully has been deepened considerably during the last 50 years as a result of increasing peaks. The unusual location of the gully does rise the question whether a first ditch has not been digged around the lyceum ground in order to protect it against runoff from upslope.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2097.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/nl/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"