Pedregal

After an hour's traverse of a comparatively desert plateau called the Pedregal, covered with rocks and smelling of the patchouli-scented flowers of the mimosa, Aragon pointed out the straw sheds and grassy plaza of Chile-Chile.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

Lee had undertaken alone an all-night exploration of a desolate, lava tract called the Pedregal, which had been shunned by scouts and troopers alike.

Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers 1917

The troops made their way with difficulty over a broken tract called the Pedregal, bristling with sharp points of rocks, and which is represented as having been the crater of a now exhausted and extinct volcano.

Sketches and Studies Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 1852

The troops made their way with difficulty over a broken tract called the Pedregal, bristling with sharp points of rocks, and which is represented as having been the crater of a now exhausted and extinct volcano.

Sketches and Studies Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

He makes more complex and expensive cabs, too, the single-vineyard Pedregal from Oakville being the rarest and dearest.

Wines That Favor Balance Over Power Jay McInerney 2011

He makes more complex and expensive cabs, too, the single-vineyard Pedregal from Oakville being the rarest and dearest.

Wines That Favor Balance Over Power Jay McInerney 2011

Though the area depicted was developed into an abstract suburban community in the 1950s by the architect Luis Barrag á n, "what Siqueiros gives us," says Ms. MacMullin, "is the actual physical form of Pedregal, even to the mineral quality of the color palette and its texture."

Siqueiros in Unfamiliar Terrain Arnie Cooper 2010

Consider his blazingly colorful "Fluorescent Volcano" (1969), or the haunting volcanic terrain in "Rocky Landscape (Pedregal)" painted in 1946.

Siqueiros in Unfamiliar Terrain Arnie Cooper 2010

He was arrested Wednesday with five of his bodyguards after neighbors in Jardines del Pedregal reported seeing armed men in cars.

Mexico Arrests the Son of an Alleged Drug-Cartel Leader 2009

"There's nothing more convincing than finding someone who really believes in a candidate and can tell you why when its heartfelt," said Pedregal in an interview with The Nation.

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