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Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / Building port | | Portuguese term or phrase: barra (canal de entrada) | | Praça de evolução com 20 metros de calado e barra (canal de entrada) com 14 metros |
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| | sand bar | Explanation:
When a river reaches the sea, it slows and all the sand and silt in suspension, due to the water movement, fall out and create a sand bar. Ships entering the river have to be able to sail over the bar or it the bar need to be dredged |
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