tinajas

Important natural water holes, known as tinajas, exist throughout the monument.

Proclamation On Sonoran Desert National Monument Clinton, Bill, 1946- 2001

Important natural water holes, known as tinajas, exist throughout the monument.

Proclamation On Sonoran Desert Nationalmonument Clinton, Bill, 1946- 2001

By local custom, household drinking water was kept indoors in red earthenware jars, tinajas, within which Stegomyia larvae abounded.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

By local custom, household drinking water was kept indoors in red earthenware jars, tinajas, within which Stegomyia larvae abounded.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

All the holes and tinajas were bone dry, as expected.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002

Finally got smart and just collected some of the dry dirt one year (these rock puddles, or tinajas are more often dry than wet) and put it in an aquarium.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2001

Most of the tinajas on top of the Granite Rocks were full ... must have had a good rain.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2001

It contains an abundance of unique, isolated communities such as hanging gardens, tinajas, and rock crevice, canyon bottom, and dunal pocket communities, which have provided refugia for many ancient plant species for millennia.

Proclamation Of Grand Staircase National Monument Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1996

In this case they buy water from the mountaineers, who fill their _tinajas_, or twenty-gallon earthenware jars, with water from mountain springs, and bring them to the nearest towns in bancas.

A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee

Besides these ponds, and artificial tanks constructed for the watering of sheep, there are a number of springs and seeps, and countless tinajas and charcos.

Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937