The Meeting of waters

Six miles from Manaus, Brazil has one of the most incredible displays of nature's majesty. No matter what you've heard, nothing can fully prepare you for a trip to the Meeting of waters (Encontro das Águas), the incredible place where two distinct bodies of water meet, but don't mix. Here is where they join, without losing their distinct qualities.

Rio Negro is a darker, slower, and much heavier body of water than the Rio Solimoes. Temperate, density, PH level and velocity differences keep these two bodies of water separate for more than 6 miles before at last they join to form the great Amazon.

The meeting of the waters is like experiencing two horizons at once, with the sandy beige waters of the Solimoes on one side, and a completely different vista as you look in the other direction at the darker, murky waters of the Rio Negro. The plays of light on the water amazes you as two different vistas greet you, side by side.

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