diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt
index 9d7a77a015..f4cc5876f2 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ 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.