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The body of water where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water is called an estuary. This commonly an enclosed body of water.

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What is it called where a body of fresh water from a river mixes with salt water?

it mixes to create brackish water


What is fresh water that mixes with ocean water called?

Water that is a mixture of fresh water and salt water is called brackish water.


Where does the River Nile cease to be salt water and become fresh water?

As in the case of all rivers which flow into seas or oceans, the Nile River mixes its fresh water with the salt water of the Mediterranean at its delta. There is no exact point at which a river ceases to be fresh water and become salt water.


What is the name for an area in which fresh water mixes with salt water?

Generally, these are rivers called estuaries.


Is the Euphrates river fresh water?

All rivers are fresh. When they get near the ocean, the fresh river water mixes with the ocean water in the river "delta" as the tides go in and out.


How does water of Mississippi river change to salt water when it gets to the ocean?

The Miss. River is fresh water, and when it collides with the Gulf Of Mexico, it mixes with the salt ocean water, thus becoming salt water!!


What is an ecosystem in which fresh water mixes with salt water from the ocean?

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What is a coastal inlet or bay called where fresh water mixes with salt water?

A coastal inlet or bay where fresh water mixes with salt water is called an estuary. Estuaries are important ecosystems that support a diverse array of plant and animal species due to the mix of freshwater and saltwater conditions.


What body of water where fresh water from a stream mixes with salt water?

It is just when the river eventually flows into the two bodies of water and combines into one. Like a water fall.


Which body of water in egypt has both fresh water and salty water?

The body of water in Egypt that has both fresh and salty water is where the River Nile flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The fresh water from the Nile mixes with the salty Mediterranean water, creating a barrier between the two.


What is an area where river water mixes the ocean water?

the river runs into the ocean.... its called brackish water


What is an area where fresh water and salt water meet?

The area is in nautic terms called The brackwaters. its mostly at river mounds into the sea, where river water mixes with seawater. The word origins from the Frisian language. The mixed water itself is called brak water. I have been a seaman, and those expressions were normal use: Example: The ship now has reached the brackwaters of the Orinoco