barranca
Americannoun
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a steep-walled ravine or gorge.
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a gully with steep sides; arroyo.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of barranca
First recorded in 1685–95; from Spanish, variant of barranco, of obscure, probably pre-Latin origin
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The green is surrounded by LACC’s famous barranca — a sandy gully that runs across the course and is populated by ball-entangling grasses.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
A steep gully known as a barranca snakes through the course.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2023
He’s got to cut the corner over the top of three oaks on the hillside to an incredibly narrow green well protected by bunkers and barranca.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
On your approach, you have to navigate the barranca — the first time you’re going to see the barranca on the course, the defining characteristic of the front nine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
We were barely one day’s journey from the port of Santa Cruz, and were bivouacked in a green cañon under the lee of the west barranca.
From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon
Hanse also incorporated barrancas in a restoration he oversaw at Los Angeles Country Club, where the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
That concrete canal and other drainage areas on the course, around half the holes, have been replaced by barrancas, which are often sandy areas dotted with native wild grasses and plants.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
But we shall journey away from the haunts of man again, and penetrate the deep dark barrancas and little-known mountain-fastnesses of the western slope of the State of Guerrero.
From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Hume, Martin
Deep barrancas might crop up in their path, massed thickets of cactus that had to be ridden around for loss of time.
From Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)
In the barrancas it was still dark night.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
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