What does barranca mean?
Barranca means A steep-sided gulch or arroyo; a canyon or ravine..
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/bəˈɹæŋkə/ · noun
A steep-sided gulch or arroyo; a canyon or ravine..
“Well: hardly,” said the Consul, softly as before, casting a suspicious eye for his part in the other direction at some maguey growing beyond the barranca, like a battalion moving up a slope under machine-gun fire.
Have you ever been south of Monterey? / Barrancas carve the coastline / And the chaparral flows to the sea / 'Neath waves of golden sunshine
[…]his hero, the Consul, is shot and thrown down the barranca followed by a dead dog.
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Barranca means A steep-sided gulch or arroyo; a canyon or ravine..
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“Well: hardly,” said the Consul, softly as before, casting a suspicious eye for his part in the other direction at some maguey growing beyond the barranca, like a battalion moving up a slope under machine-gun fire.
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