The barranca is 2000 feet deep and is cut in layers of resistant basaltic lava flows and softer explosive fragmental material.    From Wordnik.com.  [The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico] Reference

Oaks Park, known as the barranca, or Calleguas Creek at Paseo del Campo and Creekside.    From Wordnik.com.  [@ Camarillo Acorn] Reference

Within the barranca was the mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scalp Hunters] Reference

Next morning, we went off to get a view of the great barranca of Regla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference

Hay una presa arriba de este barranca, ¿se llama 'sumidero' porque drena la presa?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A recent trip / Viaje reciente] Reference

Whatever you do, do not make the mistake of taking Highway 15 libre up the barranca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuernavaca] Reference

There is no earthly reason to go through the barranca (a twisting, turning canyon route).    From Wordnik.com.  [Directions to the Laredo Broder Crossing from Saltillo] Reference

This great barranca is between two and three thousand feet deep, and the view is wonderful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference

I pointed up toward the barranca and the palm trees that thickened as you got farther from the sandy beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Along Came a Spider]

We rode over hill and dale for four or five hours, and then along the edge of a barranca for the rest of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference

For the past three weeks, raw sewage has been pouring out of a manhole close to my house and flowing down into the barranca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raw sewage] Reference

In Cuernavaca, on the top of a hilly barranca, parallel to Calle Morelos on its way out of town, lies a beautiful new cemetery.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Panteon] Reference

Trees had been left standing, framing the natural landscaping and parading like sentinels for the dead on the upper levels of the barranca.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Panteon] Reference

"Oh, my hoss slipped off into the barranca just above.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Nights] Reference

The barranca turned off by an angle at no great distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

We saw then that we were near to the end of the barranca.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness] Reference

I walked forward to the edge of the barranca, and looked over.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

"The barranca just above," repeats Hahn, lookin 'straight at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Nights] Reference

Larry had to lead his cavallo down the barranca to the main canon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Nights] Reference

After some reflection, it occurred to me that by following the barranca.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

The next question that arose was, how I was to get across the barranca.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

The barranca again frowned before me, running transversely across my path.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

"Look yonder! what is that?" cried an officer, pointing across the barranca.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rifle Rangers] Reference

This was, no doubt, a channel by which the stream escaped from the barranca.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness] Reference

These were placed conspicuously in front, upon the very brow of the barranca.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scalp Hunters] Reference

In a short while she rose to her feet again, and rushed back toward the barranca.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scalp Hunters] Reference

The only path by which I could cross the barranca had just been taken by the bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

As I ran across the bottom, shots rang in my ear, proceeding from our side of the barranca.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scalp Hunters] Reference

So we sat down beside the stream there at the bottom of the barranca, and ate up all of what was left.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Continent] Reference

They hope to break the guerrillas 'spines like the rotten branches of the barranca, where they've taken cover.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

We were still far from the water, which roared and "soughed" in the bottom of a barranca, hundreds of feet below our path.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rifle Rangers] Reference