barrancas

The word “barrancas” has 3 syllables: ba-ran-cas

It's pronounced as /bəˈræŋ.kəs/


What is synonym and antonym for barrancas?

In the thesaurus, “barrancas” has 17 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for barrancas along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for barrancas

  • bluffs
  • bulwarks
  • buttes
  • cliffs
  • crags
  • cuestas
  • declivities
  • drop-offs
  • embankments
  • escarpments
  • hogbacks
  • palisades
  • pitches
  • precipices
  • scarps
  • scars
  • tors

Meanings of barrancas

  • noun
    1. A steep-sided gulch or arroyo; a canyon or ravine.

Example Sentences

  • The hikers explored the steep barrancas carved by centuries of erosion.
  • Flash floods are common in the barrancas during the rainy season.
  • Several rare plants were found growing along the edges of the barrancas.
  • They set up camp near the barrancas, where the view was breathtaking.
  • Farmers warned their livestock not to wander too close to the barrancas.

On this page you'll find 17 synonyms or another words to barrancas, such as: bluffs, bulwarks, buttes, cliffs, crags, cuestas, declivities.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

saddles

  • abysses
  • afflicts
  • arroyos
  • barrancas
  • barrancos
  • basins
  • burdens
  • canyons
  • chasms
  • cirques
  • clefts
  • clogs
  • clutters
  • cols
  • combes
  • coombes
  • coombs
  • coulees
  • couloirs
  • crevasses
  • crevices
  • cwms
  • dales
  • defiles
  • dells
  • draws
  • encumbers
  • fills
  • fissures
  • floodplains
  • flumes
  • freights
  • gaps
  • gills
  • glens
  • gorges
  • gulches
  • gulfs
  • gulleys
  • gullies
  • gutters
  • hampers
  • handicaps
  • heaps
  • hollows
  • kettles
  • kloofs
  • ladens
  • lades
  • linns
  • loads
  • lumbers
  • mounds
  • notches
  • nullahs
  • oppresses
  • overburdens
  • overloads
  • overtaxes
  • packs
  • passes
  • piles
  • presses
  • ravines
  • shut-ins
  • stacks
  • strains
  • surcharges
  • taxes
  • trenches
  • troughs
  • vales
  • valleys
  • wadis
  • washes
  • weighs
  • weights

wadis

kettles

palisades

  • averts
  • barrancas
  • barrancos
  • battles
  • bluffs
  • buffers
  • bulwarks
  • buttes
  • cliffs
  • conserves
  • contends
  • covers
  • crags
  • cuestas
  • declivities
  • defends
  • drop-offs
  • embankments
  • escarpments
  • fences
  • fends
  • fights
  • forfends
  • guards
  • hogbacks
  • keeps
  • opposes
  • pickets
  • pitches
  • precipices
  • preserves
  • prevents
  • protects
  • resists
  • safeguards
  • saves
  • scarps
  • scars
  • screens
  • secures
  • shields
  • tors
  • walls
  • wards
  • wars
  • withstands

gaps

  • abysses
  • adjournments
  • aperture
  • apertures
  • arroyo
  • arroyos
  • barrancas
  • barrancos
  • basins
  • blank
  • breaches
  • breaks
  • bumpers
  • caesura
  • caesurae
  • caesuras
  • canyon
  • canyons
  • cavities
  • chasm
  • chasms
  • chinks
  • cirques
  • cleft
  • clefts
  • clove
  • cols
  • combes
  • commas
  • coombes
  • coombs
  • coulees
  • couloirs
  • crack
  • cracks
  • crannies
  • cranny
  • crevasses
  • crevice
  • crevices
  • cut
  • cwms
  • dales
  • defile
  • defiles
  • dells
  • difference
  • disagreement
  • discontinuances
  • discontinuities
  • discontinuity
  • disparity
  • divergence
  • divide
  • division
  • draws
  • fissures
  • floodplains
  • flumes
  • fracture
  • fractures
  • gapes
  • gills
  • glens
  • gorge
  • gorges
  • gulch
  • gulches
  • gulfs
  • gulleys
  • gullies
  • gully
  • gutters
  • hiatus
  • hiatuses
  • hiccoughs
  • hiccups
  • hole
  • holes
  • hollow
  • hollows
  • inconsistency
  • interims
  • interlude
  • interludes
  • intermission
  • intermissions
  • interregna
  • interregnums
  • interruption
  • interruptions
  • interspace
  • interspaces
  • interstice
  • interstices
  • interval
  • intervals
  • kettles
  • kloofs
  • lacuna
  • lags
  • lapses
  • linns
  • lull
  • lulls
  • notch
  • notches
  • nullahs
  • opening
  • openings
  • orifice
  • orifices
  • parentheses
  • passes
  • pause
  • pauses
  • pores
  • ravine
  • ravines
  • recess
  • recesses
  • rent
  • rents
  • respite
  • respites
  • rest
  • rests
  • rift
  • rifts
  • rupture
  • ruptures
  • saddles
  • separation
  • separations
  • severances
  • shut-ins
  • slit
  • slits
  • slot
  • slots
  • space
  • spaces
  • splits
  • subintervals
  • suspensions
  • time lags
  • trenches
  • troughs
  • vacuity
  • vales
  • valleys
  • void
  • voids
  • wadis
  • washes
  • windows

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