Case 7

Landscape and Life along the East African Rift:  
the Virunga Mountains, Rwanda 
by Robert E. Ford
 
 

 
Tour IV: Spatial-geographic overview of the Virunga Region
 
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Slide 1: Virunga Region physical geography locator map.

 
Slide 2: Virunga Region locator map.

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Slide 3: Generalized Climate Patterns in the African Great Lakes and Horn of Africa.

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Slide 4:  Precipitation Patterns in the Central African Highlands.

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Slide 5: Precipitation (Isohyets) in Ruhengeri Prefecture.

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Slide 6:  Lenticular Clouds Forming over Volcanic Peaks.

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Slide 7: SAR image of Virunga region showing Virunga Chain of volcanoes.

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Slide 8: A 3D Perspective View of the Virunga Region.

 
Slide 9: DEM of Virunga chain.

 
Slide 10: Ruhengeri Prefecture topographical map.

 
Slide 11: Ruhengeri Prefecture structural geology map.

 
Slide 12: Ruhengeri Prefecture hydrographic map.

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Slide 13:  Profile Diagram of the Mukungwa Watershed.

Slide 14: Ecozones of Ruhengeri Prefecture.

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Slide 15: Vertical Profile Diagram of Altitudinal Zones.

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Slide 16: Table - Altitudinal Vegetation Belts in the Virungas.

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Slide 17: Vegetation Map of the Virunga Volcanoes National Park.

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Slide 18: Cash and Subsistence Crops/Land Use Patterns.

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Slide 19: Crop types by Altitudal Belt in the Virunga Mountains.

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Self-Test Exercise
 

Created 12 February 1998. Last updated 19 May 1998  by JDH.