potreros

Ya nadie juega al balero ya no existen los potreros para embarrarse de goles los pantaloncitos cortos que todos esperan, pronto, alargarlos por ser hombres.

veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2009

Indeed, we had started early that morning in order to have time enough to look at the bulls in the _potreros_ -- the great grass-meadows -- that lie for miles outside the city, and which are made immensely fertile by flooding from time to time.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

The potreros were lush with grass, but no herds grazed upon them; villages were deserted and guano huts were falling into decay, charred fields growing up to weeds and the ruins of vast centrales showing where the Insurrectos had been at work.

Rainbow's End Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

The mounted figures of vaqueros galloped in the distance, and the great herds fed with all their horned heads one way, in one single wavering line as far as eye could reach across the broad potreros.

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

The mounted figures of vaqueros galloped in the distance, and the great herds fed with all their horned heads one way, in one single wavering line as far as eye could reach across the broad potreros.

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

The mounted figures of vaqueros galloped in the distance, and the great herds fed with all their horned heads one way, in one single wavering line as far as eye could reach across the broad potreros.

Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad 1890

For a number of hours we have to follow the base of the huge potreros, crossing narrow ravines, ascending steep but not long slopes, until at about noon we stand on the brink of a gorge so deep that it may be termed a chasm.

The Delight Makers Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier 1877

We turn to the left, and with the dizzy chasm of Cañon del Alamo to our right, proceed westward on one of the narrow tongues which, as the reader may remember, descend toward the Rio Grande from the high western mountains, and which are called in New Mexico potreros.

The Delight Makers Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier 1877

The rich grass waves high in the potreros; the linnets sing blithely in the rose-bushes.

The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Richard Savage 1874

The cattle have reached their potreros on the Mariposa.

The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Richard Savage 1874