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han llegado a labrar sus causes

English translation: define/carve out a clear riverbed

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Spanish term or phrase:han llegado a labrar sus causes
English translation:define/carve out a clear riverbed
Entered by: Wendy Cummings

14:48 Nov 6, 2009
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Geology / land formation
Spanish term or phrase: han llegado a labrar sus causes
[linked with 2 other questions] Wonderful descriptive piece of text, but with no image to clarify what on earth it is trying to describe..!

In Argentina there is a "mountain" range called "Sierras Bayas", formed of 3 hill ranges, the northern, central and southern. Each of the ranges is separated by a dip, or depression, in the land. The paragraph describing the layout of the northern range ends with:

La depresión situada entre este grupo y el central, está surcada por un drenaje de dirección Oeste, cuyos cursos accidentales no han llegado a labrar sus causes, sin que corren por el fondo de los bajos, al salir de las sierras, a la altura del cerro Matilde, estos cursos se han unido en uno solo.
Wendy Cummings
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:32
define (or 'mark out) a clear river-bed
Explanation:
cuyos cursos accidentales no han llegado a labrar sus causes, sin que corren por el fondo de los bajos
--> (+/-)
(drainage) whose indeterminate flow has been insufficient to define a clear river-bed, instead the water simply flows along/across the bottom of the slopes
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Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 08:32
Grading comment
I did go with "carve" as suggested by Alicia and a word i had been playing with myself, but overall points awarded for the usefulness of the answer
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +3have (not) succeeded in carving their riverbeds
Alicia Orfalian
3 +1define (or 'mark out) a clear river-bed
Jennifer Levey
4have managed to dig / establish a (river) bed...
Wendy Petzall
Summary of reference entries provided
Some links
Alicia Orfalian

Discussion entries: 2





  

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35 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
define (or 'mark out) a clear river-bed


Explanation:
cuyos cursos accidentales no han llegado a labrar sus causes, sin que corren por el fondo de los bajos
--> (+/-)
(drainage) whose indeterminate flow has been insufficient to define a clear river-bed, instead the water simply flows along/across the bottom of the slopes


Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 08:32
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
I did go with "carve" as suggested by Alicia and a word i had been playing with myself, but overall points awarded for the usefulness of the answer

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: Good grammar, more appropriate style. (No hyphen in 'riverbed' in US English.)
8 hrs
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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
have (not) succeeded in carving their riverbeds


Explanation:
the sentence is in the negative, that's why I included (not).

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Lao Woman Tours::(Tour_programs):
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The original 'River of a Thousand Lingas', Kbal Spean is an intricately carved riverbed deep in the foothills of the Cambodian jungle. ...
www.laowomentour.com/.../Luang_Prabang.php - En caché - Similares -
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The Temples of Angkor
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22 Aug 2008 ... Our second day we hired a TukTuk to take us further afield to the temples of Bang Melea and Banteay Srei and the amazing, carved riverbed at ...
www.travelblog.org/Asia/.../blog-309196.html - En caché - Similares -

Alicia Orfalian
Argentina
Local time: 09:32
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Jennifer Levey: That's the idea, yes. But in English we don't use the possessive 'their' when referring to something that actually doesn't exist (the river-bed); use the indefinite article 'a(n)' instead.
21 mins
agree  FrenchPhD: yep
1 hr
agree  Noni Gilbert Riley: I was going to suggest "carve out"
1 hr
agree  Wendy Petzall: Sorry, didn't read your option before posting mine: I DO like yours better!
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
han llegado a labrar sus cauces
have managed to dig / establish a (river) bed...


Explanation:
cuyos cursos accidentales no han llegado a labrar sus cauCes, sinO que corren por el fondo de los bajos
whose irregular courses have not managed to dig a bed, but rather run along the bottom of the lower (valleys)...

Wendy Petzall
Venezuela
Local time: 08:32
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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Reference comments


24 mins
Reference: Some links

Reference information:
Hopefully they may clarify something:

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Historias mineras, cerros y Caleras… y un Rincón Soñado en Sierras ...
Historias mineras, cerros y Caleras… y un Rincón Soñado en Sierras Bayas - Buenos ... justo frente a las tierras donde vivía la india Matilde Catriel, ...
www.salidacampestre.com.ar/.../sierras-bayas/sierras-bayas.... - En caché - Similares -
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Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina - La estructura del ...
El sinclinal del cerro Matilde y su relación con el plegamiento mesoscópico de las cuarcitas superiores. Implicancias tectónicas. Sierras Bayas, Buenos ...
www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci...pid... - En caché - Similares -
de AC Massabie - 2005 - Artículos relacionados - Las 2 versiones
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La estructura del Grupo Sierras Bayas en el sector norte de las ...
ya obtenidos en el estudio del sinclinal del cerro Matilde. La macroestructura del Grupo Sierras Bayas corresponde a una cubeta algo irregular, ...
www.scielo.org.ar/pdf/raga/v60n1/v60n1a17.pdf - Similares -
de AC MASSABIE - 2005 - Artículos relacionados - Las 2 versiones
Mostrar más resultados de www.scielo.org.ar
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CIRCUITO TURISTICO EN OLAVARRIA, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, SIERRA ...
Sierra Chica se hizo famosa por la explotación de canteras de granito rojo -únicas ... de Tandilia: Cerro del Diablo, Cerro Aguirre, Cerro Largo y Cerro Matilde Catriel. ... Cerro Sotuyo – a 32Km. de Olavarría y a 8Km. de Sierras Bayas ...
www.argentinaturismo.com.ar/.../circuitoturistico.php - En caché - Similares -
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Sierras Bayas - Cuevas de Sierras Bayas
Vuelve la discusión sobre las cuevas de Sierras Bayas ... sitio donde vivió Matilde Catriel (la última tehuelche que vivió en la región del cerro Aguirre), ...
www.sierrasbayas.com.ar/.../cuevassierrasbayas1806.html -

Alicia Orfalian
Argentina
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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