ranchería

ranchería (plural rancherías)

1. Alternative form of rancheria.
   • 1889, Hubert Howe Bancroft, “Niza and Coronado in Arizona. 1539–1540.”, in The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, San Francisco, Calif.: The History Company, Publishers, →OCLC, page 31:

     In one of the rancherías was met a native of Cíbola, who gave mucli information about its seven towns, Ahacus being the largest—exaggerated though in a sense tolerably accurate descriptions of the since well-known Pueblo towns.

   • 1962, Edward H[olland] Spicer, “The Ranchería Peoples”, in Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533–1960, Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, published 1967 (2nd printing), →LCCN, →OCLC, introduction (Cultural Frontiers), page 12:

     Houses were scattered as much as a half mile apart, and the group occupying the scattered houses often shifted from one ranchería location to another in the course of the year. The ranchería peoples were all agriculturalists and for them farming was a major activity.

   • 2015, John Ryan Fischer, “Landscapes”, in Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawaiʻi, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 52:

     La Pérouse [i.e., Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse] thought warfare so dominant that it constrained Indian movement, stating of one ranchería “as their people are at war with their neighbors, they can never travel further than twenty or thirty leagues.”

   • 2023 June 5, Ruaridh Nicoll, “A wild ride to South America’s northern tip”, in Financial Times‎^[1], London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 June 2023:

     The Wayúu live spread out, their rancherías passed down matrilineally.

   • 2024 January 30, Daniel Hernandez, “The original Caesar salad has been made this way for 100 years in Tijuana”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[2], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 January 2024:

     Tijuana is the city of my true heritage: Both my parents are from here, and my grandparents emigrated from other regions of Baja and northern Mexico to help populate the ranchería that was barely even a stop on the road when it was founded about 150 years ago.

From rancho +‎ -ería.

• IPA^(key): /rant͡ʃeˈɾia/ [rãnʲ.t͡ʃeˈɾi.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: ran‧che‧rí‧a

ranchería f (plural rancherías)

1. (Latin America) cottage (small rural settlement)

   Synonym: rancherío

• → English: rancheria, ranchería

• “ranchería”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024