circo lacustre

English translation: lacustrine cirques

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Spanish term or phrase:	circo lacustre
English translation:	lacustrine cirques
Entered by:	Justin Peterson

10:35 Dec 18, 2017

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Environment & Ecology / Lakes and Mountains

Spanish term or phrase: circo lacustre

Los lagos son el principal atractivo del Parque Nacional y también el elemento esencial y diferencial en cuanto al resto de parques nacionales del territorio. Los lagos ocupan los antiguos fondos de los ***circos lacustres*** y los hay de diversos tamaños y profundidades. Muchos de ellos están conectados entre sí a través de maravillosos saltos de agua y enlaces naturales que crean un entorno idílico para los amantes del senderismo, la montaña y la naturaleza.

Justin Peterson KudoZ activity Questions: 368 (3 open) (9 without valid answers) (34 closed without grading) Answers: 37 Spain
Local time: 10:40

lacustrine cirques

Explanation:
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Sergio Kot
Israel

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Summary of answers provided

3 +4

lacustrine cirques

Sergio Kot

4 +3

cirque lake

Thomas Walker

3 +3

tarn/mountain lake

Marie Wilson

Discussion entries: 3

Answers

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

lacustrine cirques

Explanation:
see ref.

Reference: http://georeview.ro/cirques&lakes/

Sergio Kot
Israel
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Hebrew,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

18 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

tarn/mountain lake

Explanation:
I think these are mountain lakes, or tarns in England, as found in Cumbria:
"
Los lagos de la montaña

Antes de la última era glacial los relieves montañosos estaban formados en gran parte por multitud de antiguos circos lacustres, que se fueron rellenando con sedimentos y se vieron obligados a abrir una vía fluvial hacia los grandes océanos, dando lugar a las cuencas fluviales quepueden verse en la actualidad por toda la Península."
http://rutasporasturiasconpeques.blogspot.com.es/2010/03/lag...

Tarn (lake) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarn_(lake)
A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn

Marie Wilson
Spain
Local time: 10:40
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

José Patrício: Resulting rock material is embedded in the glacier and scours a concave floor, which may contain a small lake (tarn) - https://www.britannica.com/science/cirque Cirque glacier - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque_glacier

20 mins

-> Thanks, Spielenschach, good references.

agree

Sofia Bengoa

27 mins

-> Thank you, Sofía.

neutral

patinba: The cirques are the hollows, not the lakes.// Try translating the second sentence of the text provided and you will see why "tarn/lake" does not work.

50 mins

-> Yes, I know it doesn't really fit in the sentence as such, but I don't think the other answers work either. Maybe just cirque on its own would be better.

neutral

Charles Davis: As patinba says, the circos are cirques and the lagos that occupy them are tarns

5 hrs

neutral

Carol Gullidge: agree with Pat and Charles. Can even remember cirques from Geography lessons all those decades ago!

6 hrs

agree

neilmac: Flew over some tarns yesterday on the way to Scotland :-)

1 day 11 mins

-> Thanks, Neil! I spent most of my childhood in Cumbria, so I've seen plenty of them. Doesn't seem to be very popular though :-)

8 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

cirque lake

Explanation:
Although I see how it is written in Spanish, the cirques are not lacustrine - the lakes are cirque-related. Cirques are glacial, not lacustrine, features; if they fill with water, they become lakes, & thus, by extension only, lacustrine. "Cirque lakes" is a fairly common term (100,000+ hits on Bing search), & there are numerous lakes, around the U.S. anyway, named "Cirque Lake." A Bing search for the English term "lacustrine cirque" returned only one real hit.
See here for example:
http://www.ecologydictionary.org/CIRQUE_LAKE
Cirque lake: A lake occupying a rock basin usually at the head of a valley in high mountain ranges.
Or here:
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/cirque lake
cirque lake (hydrology): A small body of water occupying a cirque.

Thomas Walker
United States
Local time: 01:40
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

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