barracks

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At length they came to a part of the mountain completely broken up by barrancos and ramblas of vast depth and shagged with rocks and precipices.

From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Irving, Washington

And before the soldiers could arrive at the cave, Pepe Conde had discovered their approach and fled, endeavouring to make his escape amongst the rocks and barrancos of the Alpujarras.

From The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain by Borrow, George Henry

Yet entire companies of marauders might lie in wait in the many wild rocky barrancos of this apparently level brown plain.

From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Franck, Harry Alverson

The outer flanks of the crater are furrowed by a great number of smaller barrancos radiating outward from the rim of the caldera.

From Volcanoes: Past and Present by Hull, Edward

From this plateau barrancos, or ravine-valleys, said to number 103, radiate quaquaversally.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir