Spanish substrate/A

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

Rick Mc Callister <rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu> wrote:

>	In Spanish, it's called a <cajo/n> [which also means garbage
>can/truck, among other things], hence the town of El Cajo/n.
>	Box canyons figured in most westerns filmed in Arizona, so if
>you've seen John Wayne movies, you've seen plenty of them. They're the
>places where the bad guys are usually holed up in. At least in the films,
>they're canyons that have only one entrance, which is narrow with steep
>walls. They widen out inside and often have a bit of a flood plain where
>farming is possible.
>	I'd imagine there'd be quite a few of them in parts of southern and
>eastern Spain where smaller streams flow down from the plateau.

As to Artesa de Segre, and as one who nearly drowned there once
[I must have been 10 or so], I must say it's not really a box
canyon in my recollection, but the river (Segre) does flow
through mountainous territory there.  Indeed the fact that the
waterlevel rose so quickly on the particular day of my
near-drowning (some bozo must have opened the floodgates of the
Oliana reservoir upstream), suggests that the valley is rather
narrow, I think.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl
Amsterdam