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| Image number: | 2156 |
| Feature : | river deposits |
| Grouping : | river deposits |
| Discipline : | Environment |
| Year : | 2007 |
| Locality : | Kajeke river |
| Country : | Burundi |
| Region - tribe : | Rusizi, Imbo Plain |
| Physiographic region : | Rift-Tanganyika |
| Notice : | The Kajeke river, leaving the hilly area of the old Risizi valley slope and river deposits, creates alluvial fans and other heavy deposition, causing river bed changes and inundations. Here the main channel below the bridge is filled up. Flood. Natural hazard. Natural risk |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 2156. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |