Rocs quebrada is quarry stone popular for building walls. ❋ Unknown (2007)
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. ❋ Unknown (2005)
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). ❋ Unknown (2007)
The grand advantage of roca bola is that it costs considerably less than roca quebrada. ❋ Unknown (2007)
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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." ❋ Marian (2006)
The land ran in a narrow swath up and down a precipitous quebrada, and the gradient was so steep that the new highway, though but a mile away, lay more than two thousand feet below. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
Two of these rode off at once and disappeared in a shallow quebrada to the left. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Sometimes a _quebrada_ is several hundreds of feet in width, and of a depth so appalling as to unnerve the most hardy mountaineer. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
A _quebrada_, it may be explained, is a sort of rent or chasm in the mountain, usually with vertical, or at least precipitous sides, and very frequently of terrific depth, the impression suggested by its appearance being that at some period of the earth's history the solid rock of the mountain had been riven asunder by some titanic force. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
The _quebrada_ died out in the valley about a mile from the mouth of the cave, as could be seen when the spot was indicated by the old Indian woman, and Escombe wondered more than ever by what chance his senseless body had been carried so far by the rushing water without destroying such life as remained in it. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
But I cannot understand how, after having fallen into the river, you escaped being dashed to pieces upon the many rocks among which it flows, nor how, having escaped that death, you afterwards escaped drowning in the deep water, for you must have been swept along quite a mile after issuing from the _quebrada_. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
"Have you forgotten that I ordered you to measure very carefully the _quebrada_ this morning, before doing anything else?" ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)