Rio de la Plata Estuary! The Beauty of the Collide Waters!

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Rio de la Plata, the River of Silver!

Rio de La Plata's delicate balance of the ecosystem between freshwater and saltwater makes the area a natural home to rare species of dolphins, croakers and sea turtles. How long could this exist during the recent climate change?

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Rio de la Plata, Uruguay

Every year 57 million cubic metres flow into the muddy estuary of Rio de la Plata, a coastal area with a lower salinity than the ocean.

The result of this flow is that fresh water from the Paraná River and Uruguay River collide together with the salt water from the southern Atlantic Ocean in a raging vortex caused by the wind and the changing tides.

At its widest point, the mouth of this immense estuary reaches 220 kilometres wide. It becomes the largest estuary in the world because it reaches this measure.

Argentina's capital Buenos Aires lies on the southern coast of the vast estuary. Uruguay's capital, Montevideo lies on the northeastern coast. With its unique combination of saltwater and freshwater, the estuary keeps the soil in the surrounding landscape lush and fertile.

Rio de la Plata is a natural habitat to several endangered species such as sea turtles and the rare La Plata Dolphin, which is the only river dolphin that lives in the ocean and in saltwater estuaries.

The estuary is also home to the croakers. Those croakers are drum-fish that croaks like a frog. Every year from October to January, croakers migrate into the outer estuaries to spawn on the bottom of the water and eat mussels.

Weakfish or croakers have for generations been the main resource of food for the local Uruguayan fishermen, as well as the main food of the endangered La Plata dolphins.

The croakers are now under pressure from industrial fishing and pollution, and are also highly vulnerable to climate change.

In the future, it is likely that climate change will cause stronger winds, which in turn and together with the global sea level expected to rise higher, could lead to flooding of the Rio dela Plata coastal areas.

Not only that, but the flooding of the coastal areas will affect the delicate balance of the ecosystem between freshwater, destroy the croakers feeding ground and threat its very existence.

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