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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Lake Cakora is is intermittently open to the ocean at Brooms Head Main Beach, Australia.
This peculiar and fascinating tree shape is caused by rain and by the water soaked by tea tree oils, which picks the brown color.

That's why the Rio Negro in the Amazon in Brazil is called the Rio Negro.

this is where the Rio Negro (left side) meets the Rio Solimoẽs (from the right) at Manaus in Brazil. The Rio Negro gets its color from the decaying organic matter in the forest essentially turning the river into "forest sun tea". While the Rio Solimoẽs gets its color from sediment that is stirred up and carried in the river.



Besides the fact that the literal translation of "Rio Negro" is "black river" it's also a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_river

The "Rio Solimoẽs" is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_river_(river_type)