The confluence of the rivers Czâlin (clean water) and Yangtze River (brown waters) in Chongqing, China.
In geography, a confluence is the meeting of two or more bodies of water. It refers either to the point where a tributary joins a larger river, called the main stem, or where two streams meet to become the source of a river of a new name. The confluences in the photos below create dramatic visual contrasts.
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