Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

breñón

English translation:

(large expanse of) scrubland

Added to glossary by Charles Davis
Oct 23, 2011 16:35
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Spanish term

breñón

Spanish to English Other Geography Description of terrain
This is from a police accident report from Costa Rica. . Here is the context:, "al lado oeste del vehículo se observó una pared de tierra tipo breñón, con una altura de unos treinta metros...por dicho breñón fue que cayó el vehículo"

I see that there is a town in C.R called Breñón, but I can't make a connection. I also see that there is a kind of vegetation known as breñón that I found in this fairly obscure citation:

" La segunda categoría clasificada se definió su composición por una vegetación secundaria joven, la cual presenta arbustos con alturas menores a los siete metros, con alta variedad de especies, otro tipo de vegetación de menor tamaño que la anterior la cual presenta una composición florística alta, se trata del charral y que específicamente en esta zona se le domina *breñon* , generalmente esas dos vegetaciones se encuentran juntas"

Thank you in advance for any help.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +4 (large expanse of) scrubland
Change log

Oct 28, 2011 19:48: Charles Davis Created KOG entry

Discussion

Jessica Noyes (asker) Oct 23, 2011:
Thank you -- I have a better picture now that I have gotten the idea of an earthen wall out of my head.
Charles Davis Oct 23, 2011:
Hmm... yes, I've been trying to picture the scene myself. Although the "pared de tierra tipo breñón, con una altura de unos treinta metros" sounds at first like a kind of mound or earthwork, what must have happened is that the vehicle came off the road and fell down the "pared", so the ground fell away. So I guess we are dealing with the "tierra quebrada" kind of "breña", rough and rocky. It sounds like a gully or something like that. I'm not sure how to express it: something like "a steep brush-covered incline", maybe?
Jessica Noyes (asker) Oct 23, 2011:
Thank you very much..I am wondering if you can make this meaning fit my context of a "pared"? -- do you think it would be a brushy cliff wall?

Proposed translations

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(large expanse of) scrubland

I found this entry in a Diccionario de costarriqueñismos:

"breña. f. No solamente la "tierra quebrada entre peñas y poblada de maleza", como dice el diccionario, sino toda porción de terreno, quebrado o llano, que tenga maleza [...]
breñón. m. Breña muy grande."
http://www.asamblea.go.cr/Centro_de_informacion/biblioteca/O...

The definition of "breña" cited here is from the DRAE
http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltGUIBusUsual?TIPO_HTML=2&TIPO...

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There are references in several Costa Rican sites to "Zona de pasto abandonado (breñón, tacotal)"
http://www.mundoanuncio.cr/finca-sostenible-casa-cabinas-bod...
Note from asker:
Thank you!
Peer comment(s):

agree Christine Walsh : Oxford has 'breña' as scrubland too. Saludos, CW
1 hr
Thanks, Christine! Saludos :)
agree Jenni Lukac (X)
3 hrs
Thanks, Jenni :)
agree FVS (X)
3 hrs
Thanks, FVS :)
agree Silvina P. : exacto
6 hrs
¡Muchas gracias, Silvina!
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