sistema de curva

English translation: meandering river system

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Spanish term or phrase:sistema de curva
English translation:meandering river system
Entered by: pistacho

17:47 Jan 6, 2016
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Geography / river characteristics
Spanish term or phrase: sistema de curva
El Vichada es una zona privilegiada de Colombia, con un gran potencial de expansión agrícola, posee el 33 por ciento del recurso hídrico del país, Cinco ríos que lo atraviesan paralelamente el río Meta, Vita, Tomo, Vichada, Orinoco y Guaviare que limita con el departamento de Guainía; 75 por ciento de la altillanura del territorio nacional; las únicas sabanas cultivables de Colombia; el Parque Tuparro con 500 mil hectáreas donde hay Avistamiento de aves flora y fauna protegida, particularidades únicas en Colombia.

Actualmente el Vichada está desarrollando la conservación del río Vita que nace en la altillanura colombiana, con características únicas en el mundo, conserva peces endémicos, especies nativas, sistema de curva, calidad de agua.
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meandering river system
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Thomas Edmond Mosley
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3 +1meandering river system
Thomas Edmond Mosley
2 -1mainatins a beneficial curve system
Muriel Vasconcellos


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meandering river system


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Thomas Edmond Mosley
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neutral  philgoddard: I wondered about this, but it doesn't seem a very interesting thing to say about a river. Most rivers meander.
1 hr

agree  Cornelius Gillen: look at google earth images for the river and you will see that the river has huge meanders with point bars, etc., a classic
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mainatins a beneficial curve system


Explanation:
I found a few references to river 'curve systems'. The point could be that it doesn't shift its course or that the curve system is beneficial. This phrase is the object of "conserva", which refers to several of its beneficial characteristics. Still, I would use different verbs with these elements because no one verb fits them all. Thus:

'supports endemic fish and native species, maintains a beneficial curve system, and offers consistently good water quality'

Examples:

https://books.google.com/books?id=VWv3XLu5L2kC
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden - 1874 - ‎Geology
Parts of Idaho and Wyoming about the heads of the Snake River. ... It is evident that wherever sedimentary formations occur **the curve system** greatly facilitates ...

www.triposo.com/loc/C385ndalsnes/tle-UnderstandÅndalsnes sits аt the mouth оf Rauma river, opposite the village оf Veblungsnes ... particularly **the double horseshoe curve system** аt Verma - the system wаs ...

jchps.com/.../jchps%208(4)%2044%20sk%2030%20Akiladev%202.pdfpercolation of polluted water in to the soils from the rivers. As a result ..... Arc Gis helps in interpolating the ground water quality with its **spline curve system** and.

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Note added at 5 hrs (2016-01-06 23:38:15 GMT)
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Oops, I meant 'maintains', of course

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 12:53
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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disagree  celiacp: "beneficial" is not on the original document.
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