Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
la carretera se interna
English translation:
the road enters
Added to glossary by
Jenni Lukac (X)
Oct 20, 2009 21:45
14 yrs ago
Spanish term
la carretera se interna
Spanish to English
Art/Literary
Tourism & Travel
This is talking about a ravine or gorge.
Un poco al norte de esta población, después de lxhuatán, la carretera se interna en la Garganta del Diablo, en cuyo fondo corre el río de la Sierra. A la garganta se precipitan varias pequeñas cascadas.
Un poco al norte de esta población, después de lxhuatán, la carretera se interna en la Garganta del Diablo, en cuyo fondo corre el río de la Sierra. A la garganta se precipitan varias pequeñas cascadas.
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Change log
Oct 26, 2009 18:47: Jenni Lukac (X) Created KOG entry
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the road enters
Another option, as one supposes the depth from the description that follows.
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Note added at 31 mins (2009-10-20 22:17:06 GMT)
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Some examples in English using "gorge" and canyon": "Therefore, it is strongly advised not enter the gorge during or just after periods of prolonged heavy rainfall. http://wikitravel.org/en/Taroko_Gorge; "State Route 89A enters the canyon on its north end via a series of hairpin turns before traversing the bottom of the canyon for about 13 miles (20.8 kilometers) until the highway enters the town of Sedona." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Creek_Canyon. Both are wiki sites but I found many more in a Google search. "Road" or "highway", in any case, based on your perception of the width and state of the "carretera".
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Note added at 40 mins (2009-10-20 22:26:35 GMT)
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I write articles about rural tourism for a Spanish language magazine and I just finished an article about a zone in the Pyrenees that has a lot of hairpin-turn roads that run through gorges so I had a clear image. At some points the level of the road is not that much higher than the level of the river (that in Spain varies widely from one season to another). I hope I've been helpful.
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Note added at 31 mins (2009-10-20 22:17:06 GMT)
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Some examples in English using "gorge" and canyon": "Therefore, it is strongly advised not enter the gorge during or just after periods of prolonged heavy rainfall. http://wikitravel.org/en/Taroko_Gorge; "State Route 89A enters the canyon on its north end via a series of hairpin turns before traversing the bottom of the canyon for about 13 miles (20.8 kilometers) until the highway enters the town of Sedona." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Creek_Canyon. Both are wiki sites but I found many more in a Google search. "Road" or "highway", in any case, based on your perception of the width and state of the "carretera".
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Note added at 40 mins (2009-10-20 22:26:35 GMT)
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I write articles about rural tourism for a Spanish language magazine and I just finished an article about a zone in the Pyrenees that has a lot of hairpin-turn roads that run through gorges so I had a clear image. At some points the level of the road is not that much higher than the level of the river (that in Spain varies widely from one season to another). I hope I've been helpful.
Note from asker:
Thanks, Jenni! I think your right. I wanted to see what others thought, but as I understand it, the road is above the gorge (why build in the bottom of a gorge with waterfalls pouring into it and a flowing river at the very bottom?) |
Thanks again, Jenni. Very helpful!! |
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you, Jenni!"
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12 mins
the road goes deep into...
Oxford Dictionary: internarse: go deep into.
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Federico Pasquale
: En el diccionario de word reference también aparece go deep into para internarse, yo elegiría esa opción. http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=inte...
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Gracias, Federico! Yo creo que tiene mucho sentido teniendo en cuenta que se trata de una Garganta.
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teresa quimper
3 hrs
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Gracias, Teresa!
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agree |
Soledad Caño
6 hrs
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Gracias, Soledad!
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agree |
Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes
10 hrs
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Gracias, Alejandro!
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the road, the trail goes through/goes inside the Garganta del
goes in
Peer comment(s):
neutral |
margaret caulfield
: This does not have the same connotation as "internarse".
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18 mins
goes deep into
goes deep into the Garganta del Diablo
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Rosa Paredes
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neutral |
margaret caulfield
: This was already said 6 minutes before your posting.
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21 mins
the road goes to-wards to/inside the Garganta del Diablo
Just another option.
Regards,
Regards,
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26 mins
the road turns into the
TIMMORCH.COM - Tiger Leaping GorgeAs ***the trail turns into the gorge***, misty views of the Yangtze River unveil themselves upstream through the morning fog. Around the first corner, ...
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Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage - Google Books Resultby Robert Michael Pyle - 2001 - Nature - 320 pages
As it **turns into the gorge**, the Columbia River rounds its Great Bend and wends west through Wallula Gap, a major choke point for the floods from Glacial ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0618127437...
Wissahickon Creek: May 2009It is also located at the exact spot where the creek **turns into the** gorge with the hill of Chestnut Hill on one side and ridge of Ridge Avenue on the other. ...
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Tour of the Alps 2001We didn't stop but rode down the series of hairpin turns into the gorge of the Hinterrhein, a branch of the Rhine that originates on the slopes of the ...
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www.timmorch.com/content/en/china/45.htm - Cached - Similar
Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage - Google Books Resultby Robert Michael Pyle - 2001 - Nature - 320 pages
As it **turns into the gorge**, the Columbia River rounds its Great Bend and wends west through Wallula Gap, a major choke point for the floods from Glacial ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0618127437...
Wissahickon Creek: May 2009It is also located at the exact spot where the creek **turns into the** gorge with the hill of Chestnut Hill on one side and ridge of Ridge Avenue on the other. ...
wissahickoncreek.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html - Cached - Similar
Tour of the Alps 2001We didn't stop but rode down the series of hairpin turns into the gorge of the Hinterrhein, a branch of the Rhine that originates on the slopes of the ...
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1 hr
the road penetrates
penetrates is often used in this sense
ArcoNorteandSuriname - [ Traducir esta página ]
The road penetrates one of the most pristine and thinly populated stretches of rainforest in all of Amazonia and indeed in the entire world, ...
www.planettrailsfoundation.org/ArcoNorteandSuriname.html - En caché - Similares -
The Edinburgh review -
de Sydney Smith - 1835 - Architecture
... elevations an additional foot in width will be allowed to each side for drains : the deepest chasms by which the road penetrates the elevations will not ...
books.google.com.ar/books?id=NOoEAAAAQAAJ... -
The road to Milford Sound - [ Traducir esta página ]
... but it is nothing compared to the Eglinton Valley, where the road penetrates into steeper, bush-clad mountains and winds through a sub-alpine wonderland ...
www.roughguides.com/.../default.aspx?titleid... - En caché - Similares -
The Overland Trail: From The Golden Gate to The Great Salt Lake ... - [ Traducir esta página ]
3 Dec 2004 ... The road penetrates the range of mountains by way of this canyon. The walls rise on each side in rugged grandeur attaining in places a ...
cprr.org/Museum/Overland_Trail/index.html -
ArcoNorteandSuriname - [ Traducir esta página ]
The road penetrates one of the most pristine and thinly populated stretches of rainforest in all of Amazonia and indeed in the entire world, ...
www.planettrailsfoundation.org/ArcoNorteandSuriname.html - En caché - Similares -
The Edinburgh review -
de Sydney Smith - 1835 - Architecture
... elevations an additional foot in width will be allowed to each side for drains : the deepest chasms by which the road penetrates the elevations will not ...
books.google.com.ar/books?id=NOoEAAAAQAAJ... -
The road to Milford Sound - [ Traducir esta página ]
... but it is nothing compared to the Eglinton Valley, where the road penetrates into steeper, bush-clad mountains and winds through a sub-alpine wonderland ...
www.roughguides.com/.../default.aspx?titleid... - En caché - Similares -
The Overland Trail: From The Golden Gate to The Great Salt Lake ... - [ Traducir esta página ]
3 Dec 2004 ... The road penetrates the range of mountains by way of this canyon. The walls rise on each side in rugged grandeur attaining in places a ...
cprr.org/Museum/Overland_Trail/index.html -
1 hr
the road is swallowed by
given that we're talking about the "Garganta"!
10 hrs
the road plunges into
if you want to make it a little more colourful/literary:
The Road Diary
The road plunges into the canyon walls, often a hundred feet high, winding with the meandering river. Surrounded by barriers and sometimes with cliffs on ...
www.1000woodcuts.com/1000woodcuts/road.html - Similar
A709 - Roader's Digest: The SABRE Wiki
3 Sep 2009 ... After crossing a signalised junction withan access road to the peel centre the road plunges into the countryside. ...
www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=A709 - Cached - Similar
THE TIOGA ROAD ACROSS THE SIERRA NEVADA The remarkable system of ...
without warning, the road plunges into the awe-inspiring depths of Lee-. FIG. 9-Lake Tenaya, set in a massive bowl of granite. vining Canyon. ...
www.jstor.org/stable/207670 - Similar
by CJ Belden - 1919
Reaching Ladakh - Road & Air Journey - check now
On leaving Kargil town, the road plunges into the ridges and valleys of the Zanskar Range, over a huge mound of alluvium known as Khurbathang plateau, ...
www.jammu.com/ladakh/travel.htm - Cached - Similar
Kauaʻi: ancient place-names and their stories - Google Books Result
by Frederick B. Wichman - 1998 - Social Science - 202 pages
... volcano goddess, even though an enemy teased her about eating bird- food^ The road plunges into a steep narrow gulch, Ka-ua-i-ka-nana, ..
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Note added at 10 hrs (2009-10-21 07:52:27 GMT)
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NOT to be taken literally of course!
It doesn't necessarily imply downwards:
Oil road turns tribes into meat traders - environment - 18 May ...
18 May 2009 ... and shortly after the Maxus road was built, a wild meat market emerged at the town of Pompeya, where the road plunges into the reserve. ...
www.newscientist.com/.../dn17152-oil-road-turns-tribes-into... - Cached - Similar
Route nationale 10 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The road plunges into the Forêt de Rambouillet and then reaches the town of Rambouilet. At Ablis the road crosses the A 11 and turns West through flat ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_nationale_10 - Cached - Simila
r
Old Yorkshire - History
Beyond the great red viaduct, whose central piers are washed by the river far below, the road plunges into the golden shade of the woods near Cock Mill, .
The Road Diary
The road plunges into the canyon walls, often a hundred feet high, winding with the meandering river. Surrounded by barriers and sometimes with cliffs on ...
www.1000woodcuts.com/1000woodcuts/road.html - Similar
A709 - Roader's Digest: The SABRE Wiki
3 Sep 2009 ... After crossing a signalised junction withan access road to the peel centre the road plunges into the countryside. ...
www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=A709 - Cached - Similar
THE TIOGA ROAD ACROSS THE SIERRA NEVADA The remarkable system of ...
without warning, the road plunges into the awe-inspiring depths of Lee-. FIG. 9-Lake Tenaya, set in a massive bowl of granite. vining Canyon. ...
www.jstor.org/stable/207670 - Similar
by CJ Belden - 1919
Reaching Ladakh - Road & Air Journey - check now
On leaving Kargil town, the road plunges into the ridges and valleys of the Zanskar Range, over a huge mound of alluvium known as Khurbathang plateau, ...
www.jammu.com/ladakh/travel.htm - Cached - Similar
Kauaʻi: ancient place-names and their stories - Google Books Result
by Frederick B. Wichman - 1998 - Social Science - 202 pages
... volcano goddess, even though an enemy teased her about eating bird- food^ The road plunges into a steep narrow gulch, Ka-ua-i-ka-nana, ..
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Note added at 10 hrs (2009-10-21 07:52:27 GMT)
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NOT to be taken literally of course!
It doesn't necessarily imply downwards:
Oil road turns tribes into meat traders - environment - 18 May ...
18 May 2009 ... and shortly after the Maxus road was built, a wild meat market emerged at the town of Pompeya, where the road plunges into the reserve. ...
www.newscientist.com/.../dn17152-oil-road-turns-tribes-into... - Cached - Similar
Route nationale 10 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The road plunges into the Forêt de Rambouillet and then reaches the town of Rambouilet. At Ablis the road crosses the A 11 and turns West through flat ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_nationale_10 - Cached - Simila
r
Old Yorkshire - History
Beyond the great red viaduct, whose central piers are washed by the river far below, the road plunges into the golden shade of the woods near Cock Mill, .
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