" barrancas "

[Noun]  | "bar*ran*ca" | \ bə-ˈraŋ-kə \

1: a deep gully or arroyo with steep sides

2: a steep bank or bluff

Origin: 1648 ;

 Borrowed from American Spanish, from Spanish, feminine derivative of barranco "cliff, precipice, gully, ravine," of pre-Latin substratal origin;

  * Note : Outcomes of a pre-Latin form *barrank-, with variants, are known primarily from Iberia and southern France, with outliers in Piedmont (Val Sesia baranca), Switzerland (Surselvan vraunca) and Calabria and Sicily (see: references in Joan Coromines, Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, Madrid, 1984). Greek pharang-, pháranx "gully, chasm" see:ms inseparable from the Romance etymon (see: note at {pharynx|pharynx})—all perhaps evidence of a trans-European substratal terrain term (or a pre-Indo-European Wanderwort?). The hypothesis of derivation with a suffix *-anka from a base *barr- "bar, barrier" (see: {bar:1|bar:1}) see:ms unlikely, despite forms such as Occitan barrancon "rung of a chair or ladder," almost certainly of secondary origin (cf. Johannes Hubschmid in Vox Romanica, vol. 11 [1950], pp. 265-66).;

[Geographical name]  | "Copper Canyon" | \ bä-ˈräŋ-kä-del-ˈkō-brā \

1: region of northwestern Mexico in the state of Chihuahua comprising numerous deep canyons in the Sierra Madre Occidental

[Noun]  | "barrancas" 

[Noun]  | "barranca"