diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt
index 74fb2e5e54..476ea7e233 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ The normalized version takes the distance as a float between 0 (origin) and 1
 
 Reverse of :meth:`GEOSGeometry.project`.
 
-.. method:: GEOSGeometry:intersection(other)
+.. method:: GEOSGeometry.intersection(other)
 
 Returns a :class:`GEOSGeometry` representing the points shared by this
 geometry and other.