Talk:Lagoa dos Patos

Salinity?
Is it fresh or salt water? --Pmsyyz 22:39, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * It is brackish, meaning it is saltier than freshwater but not as salty as seawater. Corvokarasu 18:13, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It is mostly fresh. --Hagnat (talk) 12:18, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm from the town of Pelotas, so I have plenty of experience with this lagoon ;). The water is fresh in most of the lagoon, due to the inflow of several major rivers (such as the Jacuí).  But when the sea tide and the wind join to form the perfect conditions, it gets brackish or salty in the southern part.  But I doubt that it gets salty or brackish in the northern part... Luca (talk) 15:43, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Translation
Lagoa Dos Patos is spanish for lagoon of the two ducks.
 * Lagoa dos Patos is Lagoon of the Ducks in Portuguese. Scheridon 22:52, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
 * n'deed, this is the correct translation. --Hagnat (talk) 12:18, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, Patos comes from the name of an indigenous tribe that used to live in the area in the past. It has nothing to do with ducks (even though most of the local people also associate the word "patos" with ducks). Luca (talk) 15:45, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * In Portuguese, "Dos" is short for "de os", which means "of the", which means it is Lagoon of the Ducks or Ducks' Lagoon. Brazilians call it Lagoa Dos Patos, not Lagoa Dos Dois Patos(lagoon of the two ducks). UsernameNotIn (talk) 15:03, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

It's correct, but there are other theories about the name. Ducks (patos in Portuguese) would have been carried by Spanish navigators to the lagoon, for example. Scheridon (talk) 18:49, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure there are other theories, but since nobody knows for sure whether "Patos" in this case really means "Ducks", I'd prefer to stick with the original name in Portuguese. BTW, I guess you read the Lagoa dos Patos page in Portuguese too, where both "theories" are mentioned, but unfortunately neither have references. Luca (talk) 22:36, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Porto Alegre
I removed Porto Alegre since it lays on the cost of Guaíba_River 77.56.68.118 (talk) 17:37, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Is it the largest lagoon in South America?
It is said that it's the "largest coastal lagoon in South America".

But on the list of the largest coastal lagoons there is Lake Maracaibo from Venezuela (which is bigger and also from SA) Eltonhnjr (talk) 13:27, 14 May 2024 (UTC)