Where is this? Why does it look the way it does?Answer: This is the "meeting of the waters" when the sandy Amazon river meets the black waters of the Rio Negro. For some 6 km, the two rivers run side by side without mixing due to differences in water temperature, speed etc. I came to know of this in an excellent documentary on the amazon called Amazon: Super River. Kaushik, Mythreyi R, Iam, Krithi and Ajinkya got it. Well done.
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Different colors of the Amazon - White Water and Black Water. White water comes from mountains and black water comes from water sources in the ground.
Is the inspiration - the Discovery show on Amazon Anacondas? This was explained there
Solimões (Sunnymeans) is the name often given to early stretches of the Amazon River from the border of Brazil and Peru to its confluence with the Rio Negro.
Rio Negro (Portuguese: Rio Negro, Spanish: Río Negro, English: Black River) is the largest left tributary of the Amazon and the largest blackwater river in the world.
Rio Negro n Amazon mixing
(Wiki's amazon gives 2nd result as the website and the 3rd as the river!!! Sad. Iam gladly takes solace in the first result.)
Where did you get the pic ...
Iam could not check by googling.
Not confirmable => Spank you very much QM!
Confluance of Amazon Tributaries, Manaus, Brazil. The main branch of the Amazon has a muddy, reddish color, and wherever a river of different color enters it, the waters create a spectacular "meeting of the waters," where differently colored currents run side by side for miles, before finally blending together.
Krithi
The Meeting of Waters - the confluence of the the dark Rio Negro with the sandy colored upper Amazon River, or Solimões.
Looks like an oil spill. The recent spill in Texas or the Exxon - Valdez one?
Dead zones or hypoxic areas. Gulf of Mexico where Mississippi joins the ocean?
I think its due to oil spill in a sea
I think its due to oil spill in a sea or a water body
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