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aguas bajas

English translation: low water season


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Spanish term or phrase:aguas bajas
English translation:low water season
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Science - Environment & Ecology
Spanish term or phrase: aguas bajas
...pesca ornamental en la época de aguas bajas en la orinoquia colombiana...

Creo que dry season es el sustituto más adecuado pero no se me ocurre nada para el nivel de las aguas. El texto no habla ni de verano ni de sequía sino del nivel de las aguas. Gracias.
Sandra Constantino
Colombia
Local time: 07:04
low water season
Explanation:
una posibilidad

in the Low-Water Season of 1997. E. S. Bikbulatov, Yu. M. Lebedev, A. S. Litvinov, E. M. Bikbulatova,. V. F. Roshchupko, Yu. V. Ershov, and O. L. Tsel' ...
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During the low water season, the river and fish return to a more confined channel, and the dolphins have an easy job finding schools of fish.

"Dry season" would refer to the period when the rains are less, and "low water season" to the concomitant period when the streams and rivers go down to their lowest points.


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Maria Martinez
Netherlands
Local time: 13:04
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Gracias
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low water season


Explanation:
una posibilidad

in the Low-Water Season of 1997. E. S. Bikbulatov, Yu. M. Lebedev, A. S. Litvinov, E. M. Bikbulatova,. V. F. Roshchupko, Yu. V. Ershov, and O. L. Tsel' ...
www.springerlink.com/index/P712KV4617288K04.pdf - Similar

During the low water season, the river and fish return to a more confined channel, and the dolphins have an easy job finding schools of fish.

"Dry season" would refer to the period when the rains are less, and "low water season" to the concomitant period when the streams and rivers go down to their lowest points.


http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=139462

Maria Martinez
Netherlands
Local time: 13:04
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
Gracias
Notes to answerer
Asker: ¡Excelente, gracias!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  mediamatrix
2 mins
  -> Gracias mediamatrix !

agree  Lamarche: agree.
6 mins
  -> Thank you Lamarche!

agree  mgdletters: makes sense to me
10 mins
  -> Thank you mgdletters!

agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
58 mins
  -> Gracias Muriel!

agree  LadyofArcadia
1 hr
  -> Gracias!

agree  konungursvia: Periods of low water level (depends on rain not only season).
1 hr
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agree  Sergio Campo
8 hrs
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agree  Gilla Evans
9 hrs
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