Potrero (landform)
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title:
Potrero (landform)
text:
A potrero is a long mesa that at one end slopes upward to higher terrain. This landform commonly occurs on the flanks of a mountain, as part of a dissected plateau. A loan word from the Spanish language, potrero is in current use in the southwestern United States, where it is sometimes translated as "tongue of land" and "enclosed piece of pasture land". In the Spanish language, however, the "tongue of land" sense is archaic. Also archaic is the related sense of potrero referring to someone who w
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description:
Long mesa that at one end slopes upward to higher terrain
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrero_(landform)
date created:
2008-06-21T15:38:36Z
date modified:
2024-08-06T18:57:00Z
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