Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gorge; a ravine; a defile: a word occasionally used by writers in English on Mexican and South American physical geography, and by the Spanish Americans themselves, with about the same meaning as barranca.
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Examples
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Rocs quebrada is quarry stone popular for building walls.
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Rocs quebrada is quarry stone popular for building walls.
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Agua de Maiz is a "quebrada", a mostly dry torrent bed that has few or no water but that can fill up in a few minutes during a rain storm.
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Agua de Maiz is a "quebrada", a mostly dry torrent bed that has few or no water but that can fill up in a few minutes during a rain storm.
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Other building material that one should know is laja (flagstone), cantera (cut stone), roca quebrada (broken rock which comes out of a quarry), and roca bola (rock picked up out of fields).
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The grand advantage of roca bola is that it costs considerably less than roca quebrada.
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Other building material that one should know is laja (flagstone), cantera (cut stone), roca quebrada (broken rock which comes out of a quarry), and roca bola (rock picked up out of fields).
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The grand advantage of roca bola is that it costs considerably less than roca quebrada.
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She was a student in Laredo when my daughter memorized and publicly recited Maria Elena Walsh's poem about a very astute cow from "la quebrada de Humahuaca."
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