Where the Amazon River enters the Rio Negro river on their way to the ocean, there is an amazing meeting of the waters. The two rivers have very different colors and do not initially mix with each other. Wikipedia puts it this way:
The Meeting of Waters (Portuguese: Encontro das Águas) is the confluence between the dark (blackwater) Rio Negro and the pale sandy-colored (whitewater) Amazon River, referred to as the Solimões River in Brazil upriver of this confluence. For 6 km (3.7 mi) the two rivers’ waters run side by side without much mixing. It is one of the main tourist attractions of Manaus, Brazil.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_of_Waters
From the air it looks like this:
The same thing happens where the Fraser River in Vancouver (Canada) enters the ocean
Where the Atlantic and Pacific oceans meet at Cape Horn, there is a similar divide but not as dramatic:
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