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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

sistema de curva

English translation:

meandering river system

Added to glossary by pistacho
Jan 6, 2016 17:47
8 yrs ago
Spanish term

sistema de curva

Spanish to English Other Geography river characteristics
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.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 meandering river system
2 -1 mainatins a beneficial curve system

Discussion

Thomas Walker Jan 7, 2016:
curve system? This is a very unusual & puzzling passage. In English at least, I have never, in more than 20 years of studying & reading about rivers, found any reference to a "curve system", referring to meanders or anything else. A Bing search for "sistema de curva" also returned almost nothing relevant in Spanish. I appreciate Muriel's research, but the Hayden ref is from 1874, long before modern geomorphology & river mechanics; I couldn't get the Veblungsnes link to work; & the last ref is about curve smoothing in graphing ("spline").
Even if we think "sistem de curva" is referring to meanders, I still can't make much sense out of its use in the phrase. I can understand conserving indigenous fish, native species, & water quality, but I'm not sure what it would mean to conserve meanders - even if it were a worthy goal, the river system usually wins, & goes where it needs to go to re-establish equilibrium. Usually, we're barely able to predict the future behavior of a meander system in any detail, much less take charge of the system & make it do what we want it to.

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meandering river system

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Peer comment(s):
neutral philgoddard : I wondered about this, but it doesn't seem a very interesting thing to say about a river. Most rivers meander.
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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

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
Peer comment(s):
disagree celiacp : "beneficial" is not on the original document.
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