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Image number: 2533
Feature : gully in town
Grouping : gully
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2009
Locality : Maman Mobutu district
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Kinshasa
Physiographic region : Inter Nsele-Inkisi
Notice : The Maman Mobutu gully is alimentated with runoff, developing right on the flat hilltop where a holliday resort of the REGIDESO creates considerable amounts of runoff from the roofs and the parking. The water is not stored, just drained away to the road below the door in the the right part of the picture. Rough estimations show that discharge under that door can attain 100 liters/second! during a heavy rainstorm.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2009    Image 2533.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"