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| Image number: | 2763 |
| 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 one of the several springs, still running two days after the spring flood, when eroded fiels were left behind. Natural hazard. Natural risk. |
| Reference : | BADRIYO Agama Innocent, 2010 Image 2763. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |