Talk:Meeting of Waters

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Title of the article

The Portuguese name "Encontro das Águas" was translated literally as "The Meeting of the Waters". I think this is not the best translation nor title. First, as the Portuguese article, it should not have "The" in front, it is not Wiki style. Second, a best word for translating "encontro" in this context is "rendezvous", so I do think the article should be rename as Rendezvous of waters. Just Google and see this is the most common translation[1] so by Wiki rules, the article name should be changed. Alternatively, there is merit to keep the original Portuguese name Encontro das Águas, as it is used as shown by Google,[2][3][4]. Many tour agencies use the Portuguese name in English publicity.--Mariordo (talk) 16:18, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

After a more extensive search with Google, it seems the most common translation is "Meeting of Waters".--Mariordo (talk) 03:22, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Move (rename) to "Meeting of Waters". It's a better translation. ▫ Urbane Legend ^chinwag 11:01, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Move (rename) to "Meeting of Waters". Makes sense to me to go with the most commonly accepted translation. Unforgiven24 (talk) 20:20, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As per discussion above, I will redict to "Meeting of Waters".--Mariordo (talk) 17:18, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Water chemistry

It would be good to include this table from the article Blackwater river:

Table 1: Mean ionic composition, specific conductivity (μS/cm), and pH in Amazon waters.^[1]
	Solimões or Amazon River – whitewater.	Rio Negro – blackwater.
Na (mg/L)	2.3 ± 0.8	0.380 ± 0.124
K (mg/L)	0.9 ± 0.2	0.327 ± 0.107
Mg (mg/L)	1.1 ± 0.2	0.114 ± 0.035
Ca (mg/L)	7.2 ± 1.6	0.212 ± 0.066
Cl (mg/L)	3.1 ± 2.1	1.7 ± 0.7
Si (mg/L)	4.0 ± 0.9	2.0 ± 0.5
Sr (μg/L)	37.8 ± 8.8	3.6 ± 1.0
Ba (μg/L)	22.7 ± 5.9	8.1 ± 2.1
Al (μg/L)	44 ± 37	112 ± 29
Fe (μg/L)	109 ± 76	178 ± 58
Mn (μg/L)	5.9 ± 5.1	9.0 ± 2.4
Cu (μg/L)	2.4 ± 0.6	1.8 ± 0.5
Zn (μg/L)	3.2 ± 1.5	4.1 ± 1.8
Conductivity	57 ± 8	9 ± 2
pH	6.9 ± 0.4	5.1±0.6
Total P (μg/L)	105 ± 58	25 ± 17
Total C (mg/L)	13.5 ± 3.1	10.5 ± 1.3
HCO₃-C (mg/L)	6.7 ± 0.8	1.7 ± 0.5

98.201.151.24 (talk) 23:42, 7 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ J S B, Ribeiro; A J Darwich (1993). "Phytoplanktonic primary production of a fluvial island lake in the Central Amazon (Lago do Rei, Ilha do Careiro)". Amazoniana. 12 (3–4). Kiel: pp. 365–383. {{cite journal}}: |pages= has extra text (help)

[Darwich-1] J S B, Ribeiro; A J Darwich (1993). "Phytoplanktonic primary production of a fluvial island lake in the Central Amazon (Lago do Rei, Ilha do Careiro)". Amazoniana. 12 (3–4). Kiel: pp. 365–383. {{cite journal}}: |pages= has extra text (help)

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