Meeting of Waters
The Meeting of Waters is the confluence between the dark Rio Negro and the pale sandy-colored Amazon River, referred to as the Solimões River in Brazil, upriver of this confluence.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: river confluence in Brazil
- Also known as: “Encontro das águas - Rio negro e Solimões”
Meeting of Waters
- Categories: confluence and tourism
- Location: Manaus, Amazonas, North, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-3.11885° or 3° 7′ 8″ south
Longitude
-59.89274° or 59° 53′ 34″ west
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
6882V4J4+FW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=confluence
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Meeting of Waters” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Trobada de les Aigües”
- Cebuano: “Meeting of Waters”
- Czech: “Encontro das Águas”
- Dutch: “Encontro das Águas”
- Esperanto: “Renkontiĝo de la akvoj”
- Finnish: “Encontro das Águas”
- French: “rencontre des Eaux”
- French: “Rencontre des eaux”
- French: “Rencontre des Eaux”
- Galician: “Encontro das Augas”
- German: “Encontro das Águas”
- Portuguese: “Encontro das águas”
- Portuguese: “Encontro das Águas”
- Spanish: “Encuentro de las Aguas”
- Swedish: “Encontro das Águas”
- Swedish: “Meeting of Waters”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Colônia Antônio Aleixo and Catalão.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Praia Ponta das Lajes and Mirante.
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