What is "arriba"

Usage examples of "arriba".

In Rio Arriba County, the huge Tierra Amarilla Land Grant was captured by buying rights from a single villager and then filing a patented title claiming the entire communal holdings.

The fact that she talked about sending guides back indicated Arriba must be not so far away.

They were anxious to see what this mysterious place of Arriba looked like, and all they could see through the cavern mouth was mountain sky as blue as a safety-razor blade, and doubtless filled with cold that would cut like the blade.

They were a little higher than most of Arriba, able to look down on the roof tops.

Its people knew what went on outside, although great pains had been taken to keep existence of Arriba a secret.

The air-conditioning set-up had been switched off by the defenders of Arriba, so that it was very cold in the room.

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However, we know that First Man lived at Huerfano Mountain, and that he found the infant Changing Woman crying on top of Gobernador Knob, less than thirty miles away across the Rio Arriba County border.

It seemed to me that for this group the landscape around them and the culture of the Rio Arriba was stranger than the Lake District of Britain or the Aegean Islands.

This band had captured the courthouse of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, in a lightning raid two hours earlier, shooting or clubbing five state and county lawmen and holding most of the building's occupants as prisoners.

In Rio Arriba County in the 1960s almost half of those over twenty-five had only a grade school education.

Two homes burned, several barns, and so many haystacks that by late May the Rio Arriba sheriff's office wryly announced that the worst was over because there was little left to burn.

To the north in Rio Arriba County, the perennial revolt against Democratic Chairman Emilio Naranjo was proving unusually clamorous, with the two Democratic factions contending loudly for control of the machinery for selecting election officials.

The right to name these poll clerks is considered important in Rio Arriba for three reasons.

Empecé a oír de todo: las ramas de los árboles del jardín, unos pasos arriba, los drusos que se iban de la quinta, el arranque del viejo Issota de Abd-el-Melek: usted sabe, el que se ganó la rifa del aceite Raggio.