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A huerta or horta (, ), from Latin hortus, " garden", is a fertile area, or a field in a fertile area, common in Spain and Portugal, in which a variety of common vegetables and fruit trees are cultivated for family consumption and sale. Typically, huertas belonging to different people are in groups around rivers or other water source because of the amount of irrigation required. It is a kind of market garden.
Huerta, from " huerta" (Spanish orchard or garden), is also a Spanish toponym and surname.
Places named Huerta include:
- the Cistercian abbey of Huerta, also in Spain
- Huerta, municipality in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León
- Huerta de Rey, municipality in the province of Burgos, Castile and León
- Huerta de la Obispalía, municipality in the province of Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha
- Huerta del Marquesado, municipality in the province of Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha
People with the surname Huerta include:
- Adolfo de la Huerta (1881–1955), President of Mexico in 1920
- Baldemar Garza Huerta (1937-2006), Mexican-American musician who went by the stage name Freddy Fender
- Carlos de la Torre Huerta (1858–1950), Cuban naturalist
- Dolores Huerta, Mexican American union leader
- Esteban Huertas López, Panamanian military commander
- Irma Huerta, Mexican freestyle swimmer
- Jesús Huerta de Soto, Austrian school economist, born in Spain
- Mayra Huerta, Mexican beach volleyball player
- Ramón Martín Huerta, Governor of Guanajuato and Mexican cabinet member
- Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, a Mexican wrestler and actor better known as Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata
- Roger Huerta, Mexican/Salvadoran-American mixed martial arts fighter
- Sofia Huerta, Mexican/American soccer player
- Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta, Spanish dramatist
- Victoriano Huerta, President of Mexico from 1913 to 1914
Usage examples of "huerta".
Chief Manuel Huerta, helped the lieutenant drag a black-shrouded bundle weighing more than three hundred pounds and fitted with safety lines and flotation collars, across the deck and position it near the door.
The men unbuckled themselves and shuffled into line, Huerta taking his place at the head, facing Sikes.
Chief Huerta let the waves carry him toward the beach in a succession of rushes.
Mate First Class Brian Copley was all but invisible in the darkness, but Huerta could make out the flicker of a hand motion, questioning.
As the next wave picked him up and slid him forward again, Huerta rose to a low crouch and loped forward.
There was no response--no sense in alerting other watchers along the shore--but minutes later Huerta glimpsed the subdued flash of a black paddle dipping against a wave.
And now Chief Huerta was the night, a black shadow among shadows, edging silently under the fence through the runoff gully.
Sikes looked at the map Huerta had drawn, then compared it with the actual camp, spread out below them in the golden light of the dawn.
The last three men, Vespasio, Han, and Huerta, would head for the POW compound.
The three SEALs, Han, Huerta, and Vespasio, had found cover beneath another truck parked across the road from the Korean guards.
From there, Huerta could hear their voices clearly across the thirty feet which separated the soldiers from the hidden SEALs.
The answer, when it came, was three clicks, a pause, and three clicks more, the answer Huerta had expected.
Han should pass any casual inspection for the few minutes that Huerta and Vespasio would be away, and his knowledge of Korean and his Oriental features should let him field questions by anyone wondering where the small army guarding the POWs had gone.
The entire team, except for Robbins, Pasaretti, Vespasio, and Huerta, had rendezvoused at the airstrip.
Two days later, April 22, 1913, President Madero was shot by order of Huerta, who then declared himself dictator.