metros fluviales

English translation: meters upstream/downstream

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Spanish term or phrase:metros fluviales
English translation:meters upstream/downstream
Entered by: Jennifer Levey

15:50 May 2, 2022
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Engineering (general)
Spanish term or phrase: metros fluviales
A text by an Argentine thinker (he is writing about art, but that is not relevant here):

En esta isla de vastas hectáreas y límites difusos vive una sola familia humana: María Hernández, Tino González y sus once hijxs. Es curioso que casi nadie cruce a este territorio natural situado a solo quinientos metros fluviales de donde vive medio millón de habitantes.
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 07:22
meters upstream/downstream
Explanation:
If - and only if - your context (or Google maps, perhaps) clarifies whether the isla is aguas arriba or aguas abajo with respect to the city.
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Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 06:22
Grading comment
thanks
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1meters along the river
MPGS
3 +1meters upstream/downstream
Jennifer Levey


  

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54 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
meters along the river


Explanation:
https://www.google.com/search?q="miles along the river"&rlz=...

MPGS
Local time: 12:22
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 76

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  liz askew
16 hrs
  -> thank you, liz. Best! :-)
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
meters upstream/downstream


Explanation:
If - and only if - your context (or Google maps, perhaps) clarifies whether the isla is aguas arriba or aguas abajo with respect to the city.

Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 06:22
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 170
Grading comment
thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllegroTrans: Rather obvious but if that is an unknown, then "along the river from" would work. Using Google map should be one tool of every translator.
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