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Oxbow lake        Images © Mark A. Chappell

Oxbow lakes are characteristic of slow, meandering rivers on flat floodplains.   A river bend may be cut off and isolated from the main flow, sometimes permanently and sometimes only during the dry season.   This one is in Amazonia in southeastern Peru.

  • Canon 1D4; 24-105 mm IS or Tokina 11-16 mm, some with polarizing or graduated neutral-density filters (2013)