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Swamp Water

Swamp Water

A swamp is an area of ​​land that is permanently filled with water1. Swamp water consists of freshwater, brackish water, or seawater and is formed along large rivers and lakes where it relies heavily on rainwater and seasonal flooding to maintain natural water level fluctuations. Swamps are complex ecosystems where its water quality is diverse. Setiu Wetlands, for example, is the largest type of swamp in Terengganu. It is a mixture of riparian forest, peat swamp, mangroves, brackish lagoon with vegetation and sand islands, seagrass beds and sandy beaches. It is also unique in having a variety of interconnected ecosystems, such as seas, beaches, mudflats, lagoons, estuaries, rivers, coastal forests and mangrove forests.

1https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/swamp/