Meeting of Waters, Amazon, Brazil: Confluence between Negro and Solimões.. This is Brazil’s Amazon, and the unique Meeting of the Waters, where the Rio Negro and Solimoes Rivers meet but don’t mix for miles until turn onto the mighty Amazon River... The Meeting of Waters is the confluence between the dark (blackwater) Rio Negro and the pale sandy-colored (whitewater) Amazon River, referred to as the Solimões River in Brazil upriver of this confluence. For 6 km the waters of the two rivers run side by side without mixing. This phenomenon is one of the main tourist attractions of Manaus. The river then flows another 60 km before mixing fully, but the phenomenon persists incompletely for another 30 km. Wikipedia