Mudende Area
Location: Southwest of Karisimbi
The Mudende Area has many extinct cinder cones.
Potatoes and other crops are grown in the rich volcanic soils.
Mudende is also the name of the largest cinder cone in this area.
Agriculture completely covers this extinct cinder cone, crops are even
grown inside that crater itself. In the forground wheat is being harvested.
Source:
Robert E. Ford, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT.
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