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| Image number: | 2094 |
| Feature : | river incision |
| Grouping : | towns and environment |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2007 |
| Locality : | Nyakivumba, Bujumbura |
| Country : | Burundi |
| Region - tribe : | Bujumbura |
| Physiographic region : | Rift-Tanganyika |
| Notice : | The Nyakivumba receives a lot of drainage water from a road, upslope. Since, the river has started to incise vertically. The oversteepened slopes are affected by soil slips and other mass movements. This happens in the extension zone of bujumbura and many constructions are endangered |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 2094. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |