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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

pircado (de piedra)

English translation:

dry (stone) wall

Added to glossary by John Milan
Jun 1, 2011 18:56
12 yrs ago
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Spanish term

pircado (de piedra)

Spanish to English Science Geology Chile
In an executive summary of an environmental impact statement in the Atacama region of Chile:

"Existe un sitio consistente en una agrupación de estructuras arquitectónicas simples, construidas con pircados de piedra."

I have only reference to the word "pircado" in Chile and Argentina, so it may regionally specific.

¡Gracias!
Proposed translations (English)
4 +3 (stone) drywall
4 stone and adobe
3 construidas con pircados de piedra > built with local stone
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Discussion

John Milan (asker) Jun 1, 2011:
Prehistoric site Thank you one and all for the input, so far. I should have added that this is a prehistoric site in the area of the Andean mountains, so I don't think that "drywall" would be appropriate.

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(stone) drywall

Muro de piedra en seco.

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Speaking about prehistoric constructions:

Brochs date from the Iron Age and are the tallest prehistoric structures in Britain. ... They were formed by two concentric, dry-stone walls, ...
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Scotland-History/Brochs...

Similar prehistoric dry walls were re- ported in the Sicilian cave sites ( Brochier et al. 1992, 83).
http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/mlekuz/Mlekuz_festschrift.pd...

Before 4000 BCE, chambered tombs of dry-wall masonry (stones laid ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=IFMohetegAcC&pg=PT5&lpg=PT5...

A dry wall is just a mortarless wall. Un picado solamente es un muro en seco.

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However they write it is the same thing.
Peer comment(s):
agree Marina Soldati
8 mins
Grazie.
agree Christine Walsh
20 mins
Thanks.
agree chica nueva : pirca = Amér. Muro de piedra sin argamasa; pircar = Amér. Merid. Cercar un terreno con pircas (Oroz, Chile); pirca (dry-stone wall) = pared de piedra en seco (Norma)
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stone and adobe

Pircas are also piles of stones making burial mounds.

Los muros de la iglesia están edificados mediante un sistema de "pirca" (o "apircado), es decir piedras rústicas unidas con argamasa de barro,(Wikipedia)
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construidas con pircados de piedra > built with local stone

reference:

Los recintos pircados del tambo
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...de paredes de piedras de la zona (pircas)...
http://www.losandes.com.ar/notas/2000/12/3/sociedad-260519.a...

the builders may simply have gathered stones lying on the ground, left by natural processes such as glaciation and erosion.
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búsqueda google:

http://www.google.cl/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=es&ie=UTF-...

(¿puedes encontrar lo mismo desde EEUU?)
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