chacra

So we loaded the canoe with fifteen days 'supply of vegetable produce which the "chacra" afforded and built a stone fireplace in the bow, which served as the kitchen and smokehouse of the floating farm.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

They belonged to Guapo, who had not been a mere servant, but a cultivator, and had held a small "chacra," or farm, under Don Pablo.

The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850

They belonged to Guapo, who had not been a mere servant, but a cultivator, and had held a small "chacra," or farm, under Don Pablo.

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

But the couple have said they prefer to stay in their "chacra," a little flower farm in the Rincon del Cerro, a working-class community with dirt roads and small plots on the edge of the capital.

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But the couple have said they prefer to stay in their "chacra," a little flower farm in the Rincon del Cerro, a working-class community with dirt roads and small plots on the edge of the capital.

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But the couple have said they prefer to stay in their "chacra," a little flower farm in the Rincon del Cerro, a working-class community with dirt roads and small plots on the edge of the capital.

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But the couple have said they prefer to stay in their "chacra," a little flower farm in the Rincon del Cerro, a working-class community with dirt roads and small plots on the edge of the capital.

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We got rid of our _paisano_ with difficulty, and only under a promise to visit his _chacra_, somewhere in the vicinity, next morning.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Various

That was a serious thing for us, for there was no other chacra within a good day's march and if we were to bring any further supplies of vegetables into camp we should have no time left for real work.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

The first step in making a chacra is to remove the undergrowth; the soft stems are cut with hard-wood machetes, what can be torn up by the roots is torn up, and the small saplings are snapped off by main force.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923