At last they came to a part of the mountain completely broken up by barrancas and ramblas, of vast depth, and shagged with rocks and precipices.
Indigo and coffee grow wild in the warm barrancas on the genial slopes of the Cordillera; but neither of these articles is as yet cultivated by the planters.
Cuernavaca rests on a tongue of land projecting into the valley between two steep barrancas or ravines.
Hermoso strata; but there is some reason to suspect that one period of subsidence intervened, during which mud was deposited over the coarse sand of the Barrancas de S.
In the long line of cliffs, between fifty and sixty feet in height, called the Barrancas de S.
The rides and walks immediately around the city are delightful, no barrancas bar the way, and the two great volcanoes with their ever-changing colour and fleecy mantles of shifting cloud are a constant source of delight.
The deep barrancassurrounding the whole site formed a natural moat and made the position easily defensible.
In our rambles through the suburbs we often found our path barred by the great barrancas which almost surround the town.
It is a level-looking plain, thinly covered with pine-trees and seamed by steep-sided barrancas cut by the Motagua and its affluents.
Don Gregorio met with very fair success, his recruits being left at liberty all the week and meeting every Sunday at the Estancia de Las Barrancas for drill, which to them was a novel amusement.
Ere they were ready to march, Colonel Lopez had already left the Barrancas at the head of 200 volunteers from his regiment.
The Reconquistador and his staff had breakfasted with them that day at noon, after inspecting the cavalry regiment from Las Barrancas and the negro recruits under the command of Marcelino Ponce de Leon.
The dragoons from Las Barrancas had passed the night encamped near to the Puente Galves, at dawn Don Carlos Evana was with them.
My uncle Gregorio is going to Las Barrancas to raise a squadron of cavalry, as you know, and I have been trying to persuade grandpapa to let me raise a company of infantry among the slaves on his chacras about the Guardia Chascomus.
While Don Roderigo and the Viceroy sat at supper, the commandant of the dragoons from Las Barrancas and Don Carlos Evana had a stormy altercation together at the house of the latter gentleman.
Don Fausto Velasquez is on his estancia now, so we are going to ride over from the Barrancas to the Pajonales to consult with him before I do anything.
This garrison, under two loyal young lieutenants, Slemmer and Gilman, occupied Barrancas Barracks in Pensacola Bay.
The geological formation is on a Titanic scale; huge rocks of basalt, granite, and lava rise in fantastic shapes, intersected by deep barrancas or ravines presenting unparalleled scenes of grandeur.
He spent most of the year in the capital, coming to Barrancas only for a few weeks at a time, and that only when business demanded his personal supervision.
A place of more than passing interest between Barrancas and Ciudad Bolivar is Los Castillos, formerly Guayana la Vieja, founded by Antonio de Berrio in 1591.
As we were setting off, I asked the administrador if there were any barrancas on this road.
These barrancas (the word literally means a ravine or mountain gully) are two mountains, one behind the other, which it is necessary to cross by a narrow path, that looks like a road for goats.
The road was so straight and uninteresting, though the surrounding country was fertile, that a few barrancas would really have been enlivening.
Barrancas are those immense clefts or ravines, some of them several thousand feet deep, which abound upon the plateau, or table-land, on which the city of Mexico stands.
After leaving Cerro Colorado, with its undeveloped possibilities, the trail leads southwestward through the broken barrancas toward Batopilas.
He had clung to a risco above them when they had climbed like slow obstinate flies out of the profundities of the Llanos de Jaen and plunged into the gargantas and barrancas of the desolate Sierra Nevada.
Ah, senores, you do not know how many barrancas there are that gutter these foothills!
After much manoeuvring, the State forces of Florida induced Slemmer to retire from Barrancas to Pickens, then garrisoned by one ordnance sergeant, and at the mercy of a corporal's guard in a rowboat.
When the barrancas are clogged, or when their contents are evaporated, coyotes, deer, horses, and vaqueros obtain water by excavating a few feet in the sand lining the larger arroyos.
A practically permanent supply of water is found in one or more pools or barrancas at the head of Playa Noriega in Desierto Encinas.
After ascending the northern barrancas of the river valley, we traversed a level plain where a hunting circle was made for form sake, as the ostriches were very scarce, and I only saw one killed; and passing below, or rather to the N.
During my stay at San Andre and Rincon Barrancas I picked up a good deal of information regarding the relations of the Indians with the colonists, which perhaps may not be uninteresting to the reader.
How was it in regard to Fort Barrancasand Fort McRae?
On the other side of the bay Fort Barrancas kept up its fire at long intervals, and Fort Pickens could not reply without the danger of putting a shot into the Teaser after her recent reformation.
Fort Barrancas had evidently opened fire in response to the rocket, which had no doubt been sent up as a signal to notify the garrison that a vessel was going out or coming in, and that her movements were not regular.
They went forward cautiously now and took advantage of the unevenness of the plain, riding throughbarrancas and keeping close to chaparrals.
On they loped, looking keenly over the plain and occasionally using their field glasses to more closely scrutinize distant objects, searching the barrancas and coulees and threading through mesquite and cactus growths.
The barrancas during the month of May are all but intolerably hot, and it was a relief to get up now and then on the strips of highland that intersperse the country and look as fine as parks.
A river generally flows in the barrancas between narrow banks, which occasionally disappear alltogether, leaving the water to rush between abruptly ascending mountain sides.
But in the immediate neighbourhood of Guachochic toward the west and south lie the ridges and barrancas that run toward Sinaloa, and these are inhabited by pagan Tarahumares.
The people in the barrancas are too timid to go on the expeditions, and they buy the plants at the price of a sheep apiece.
I was rather surprised often to find the faces of the people living in the warm barrancas of a lighter colour than the rest of their bodies.
A cross is raised and many kinds of flowers from the barrancas are attached to it.
The pagans or gentiles in the barrancas say that they have two gods, but no devil.
The town of Pensacola is situated on the low, sandy mainland, on the bay, and lies some distance from the navy yard, or that portion of Pensacola which is occupied by the government for the Forts Barrancas and McRae.
Fort Don Carlos de Barrancas--the word Barrancas signifying broken ground--was so named on account of the rugged appearance of the site on which the fort stands.
At this time Fort Barrancas was blown up, all the guns being spiked but two.
From this point the coast runs east-southeast in the shape of a half-moon, open to all winds of the third quarter and ending in two barrancas at the foot of which a low point comes out with two submerged rocks.
Groeber mentions a transhumation track south of the Rio Barrancas and Lake Carri Lauquen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barrancas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
