What are the differences between atasco y congestión?

Question

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Answer 1

Atasco y congestión es lo mismo. Se puede utilizar para el tráfico y también cuando estás enfermo, cuando estás resfriado y no puedes respirar bien. Cuando estás en la carretera y el tráfico está obstruido se utiliza mejor atasco. Cuando estás resfriado se utilizan las dos, pero viene mejor congestión::: congestión nasal (de nariz). Estoy congestionado: no puedes respirar bien, te duele la cabeza, estado febril (de fiebre)... Como ves, significa lo mismo. Un sinónimo de ambos podría ser "obstrucción"

Thanks a lot. - zhmelissa, Jun 12, 2013

Answer 2

It was an ingestion of some unknown substantiality.

It was a congestion of intestinal tracks.

It was a mere suggestion of traffic jam

& English muffins on the withers and back.

[from "Tales of Quebec"]

He allí...

Answer 3

Muchas gracias a todos.

Answer 4

Congestion has grander tone than jam--more Cartesian, if you will--whatever one thinks of Descartes.

Answer 5

Congestion is abstract and general. One might labor to produce a sentence in English where transpired a singular congestion--but to what end, beyond, say, parody or the poetic? Jam is specific and concrete. Congestion also tends toward the substantive, jam towad the verbal.

Answer 6

A blockage is congestion and blockage is congestion, but....fill in the blank.

Answer 7

"Entonces, congestión es mejor que atasco?"

"Mejor" is the wrong word. Not a native speaker(s)?

Answer 8

"There is congestion in your German Shepherd's lungs--look at the X-rays!"

But not, "There is a congestion here."

Answer 9

Cada día una diferencia nueva, casi como un columnista de periódico.

Answer 10

Entonces, congestión es mejor que atasco?

Sí, es mejor para el pobre que está en el coche en pleno tráfico - 005faa61, Jun 11, 2013

Answer 11

When referring to traffic, congestion is a lot of slow-moving traffic. Atasco in this case is a bunch of cars not even moving due to congestion. To say I am stuck in traffic, we would say estoy atascado en tráfico.

Answer 12

En las horas punta,en que la gente va y viene del trabajo, o en los d'ias festivos, se encuentran f'acilmente atascos o congestiones de tr'afico en las ciudades.

This sentence is from my book. But I think atasco and congestión mean the samething,but I don't know why they are both put here in this sentence, so I am confused.

I guess they can but atasco can just mean obstruction and blockage as well as traffic jam so maybe they're being super specific lol - Kiwi-Girl, Jun 11, 2013

Answer 13

In what context? congestión can refer to a blockage, as in a blockage in your artery, or it can refer to a traffic jam. We need to know the context.