Encañonar(se)

English translation: To narrow into a gully

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Spanish term or phrase:Encañonar(se)
English translation:To narrow into a gully
Entered by: Christopher Fitzsimons

10:40 Jan 29, 2010
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Science - Geography
Spanish term or phrase: Encañonar(se)
Context- "el cauce del río se encañona formando una garganta angosta "

The RAE says the following- Encañonar: "Hacer correr las aguas de un río por un cauce cerrado con bóveda o por una tubería. Encañonar las aguas del río para dar movimiento a un molino."
Christopher Fitzsimons
Switzerland
Local time: 17:56
To narrow into a gully
Explanation:
Example: The riverbed narrows abruptly into a gully.

I think this is the most common way of describing it.

See for example:

http://www.iter.org/newsline/Pages/36/Article.aspx?795
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Evans (X)
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2To narrow into a gully
Evans (X)
4 +1to channel
liz askew
5to enter a canyon
Henry Hinds
4[the riverbed] tunnels through the landscape/mountains[, forming a ...
Muriel Vasconcellos


  

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To narrow into a gully


Explanation:
Example: The riverbed narrows abruptly into a gully.

I think this is the most common way of describing it.

See for example:

http://www.iter.org/newsline/Pages/36/Article.aspx?795

Evans (X)
Local time: 16:56
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to channel


Explanation:
encañonamiento
(encañonar) to channel, form a channel. The River Project - Know Your Watershed Never a deep-channeled river, the River flooded and meandered, ...
www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish_to.../2847137-encañonamiento.htm... - Cached

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sorry
in your context it could =

forms a channel/channels its way

liz askew
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to enter a canyon


Explanation:
Obviously.

Henry Hinds
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[the riverbed] tunnels through the landscape/mountains[, forming a ...


Explanation:
...narrow gorge'.

This fits with the clause that follows.

While "encañonar" comes from "cañon," it has also taken on a more metaphorical sense. It could mean 'passes through a canyon', but it is actually creating the canyon.

Examples of "river tunnels through" in the sense of a verb:

disappear as the river tunnels through a canopy of hardwoods between low, wooded bluffs. White-tailed deer and wild turkeys roam the banks, and songbirds ...
www.hawriver.org/library/publications/Guardians_Haw_WNC.pdf -

James Sullivan - 2006 - Travel - 271 pages
The distant karst mountains come into high relief, and soon the river tunnels through 417-foot (127 m) Hang Ca, the first of the caves, followed by Hang ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0792262034... -

Portrait of the Mississippi - Google Books Result
Howard Jones - 2005 - Nature - 117 pages
... in places by giant snags and fallen trees Dense forests create an eerie all-green environment where the River tunnels through It winds back and forth, ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=1886028745...



Muriel Vasconcellos
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Local time: 09:56
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