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Photographer: Richard E. Miller
Taken: December 18, 2009
Caption: Fishing boats at the "Meeting of the Waters" - in the rainforest below the Port of Manaus
Additional Description: - where the brown waters of the Rio Solimões (center left) and the dark waters of the Rio Negro (bottom) phenomenally converge without mixing - to form the great Lower Amazon River, "open to the merchant ships of all nations" for more than 1,000 miles between here and the Atlantic Ocean.
Submitted: January 13, 2010, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p92579
File Size: 1.142 Megabytes

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