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  • During high tide only two sandy islands with a maximum height of 3 meters (m) above sea-level (asl) and some isolated calcareous formations, the "rocas", stand above water.

    Brazilian Atlantic Islands, Brazil 2008

  • A friend's father who lives in Panama came for dinner and our Spanishes were totally different - now I am intrigued by trying to differentiate accents or why in Panama you can ask for your drink on "las rocas" (a Spanish word they have created) but here you have to ask for hielo (ice.)

    A Little More Tongue Meredith Fineman 2010

  • A friend's father who lives in Panama came for dinner and our Spanishes were totally different - now I am intrigued by trying to differentiate accents or why in Panama you can ask for your drink on "las rocas" (a Spanish word they have created) but here you have to ask for hielo (ice.)

    Meredith Fineman: A Little More Tongue 2010

  • También se están analizando la lítica tallada y destaca la gran cantidad de lascas de silex y de rocas basálticas de grano muy fino.

    Las cosas avanzan r��pidamente « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site 2009

  • This ecoregion has at least four species of endemic birds like the Gallito de las rocas (Rupicola peruviana) and endemic species of butterflies of the genera Dismopha, Callithea, Paridos, Morpho.

    Peruvian Yungas 2008

  • El hecho de que el bicarbonato cálcico (Ca (HCO3) 2) sea más soluble que el carbonato cálcico (caliza) es importante en geoquímica y ha conducido a la formación de los sistemas cársticos en las rocas calcáreas.

    When Necessity is the Mother of Invention 2006

  • Para otras, la misma montaña ofrece panoramas, rocas gigantes, y árboles retorcidos.

    Las Montanas: Tres Hermanas 2008

  • Los árboles resisten la gravedad, las enormes rocas balancean sobre puntas de piedra del tamaño del dedo gordo y la faz de las piedras barridos por el viento son testigos de los extremos del clima.

    Las Montanas: Tres Hermanas 2008

  • No lo hice porque era un día caluroso, como todavía habia escarcha en el suelo en los sitios con sombra, pero porque las víboras no salen a asolearse si no hay sol para calentar las rocas.

    Las Montanas: Tres Hermanas 2008

  • Others, made limp by too many umbrella cocktails or vodka rocas, shouted stentorian insults at their table-mates or imprecations at the waiter.

    Approaching the Cosmos... Hotel: Travelling the World with a Gay Sensibility by Robert Champ 2002

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