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rincon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rincon \Rin*con"\, n.; pl. Rincones. [Sp. rinc['o]n.]
An interior corner; a nook; hence, an angular recess or
hollow bend in a mountain, river, cliff, or the like.
[Western & Southern U. S.]
--D. S. Jordan.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (cx US southwestern US English) A meadow on the south-facing upper slopes of a mountain. 2 (cx US southwestern US English) An abandoned meander. 3 (cx US southwestern US English) An interior corner; a nook; hence, an angular recess or hollow bend in a mountain, river, cliff, etc.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 65
Land area (2000): 1.029855 sq. miles (2.667312 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.029855 sq. miles (2.667312 sq. km)
FIPS code: 62900
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 32.672457 N, 107.066132 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 87940
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Headwords:
Rincon
Housing Units (2000): 1892
Land area (2000): 6.712184 sq. miles (17.384476 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005031 sq. miles (0.013030 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.717215 sq. miles (17.397506 sq. km)
FIPS code: 65296
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 32.293258 N, 81.234171 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 31326
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Headwords:
Rincon
Wikipedia
Rincon (Spanish, "angle" or "corner") is a surf spot located at the Ventura and Santa Barbara County line in Southern California, USA. Also known as the "Queen of the Coast", Rincon is one of the most famous surf spots in California, known around the world for its well-formed waves and long rides. The book 100 Best Surf Spots in the World rates Rincon at 24. It is best at low tide during the winter months when swells are coming mostly from the west and northwest. There is a gated residential community that occupies most of the Rincon beachfront. However, public access is provided at parking lots on both sides of the gated community, with restrooms and a picnic area in the upper parking lot, Rincon Beach Park.
Rincon Point is home to the Rincon Classic surf championship scheduled for January each year. The championship draws local surf greats and spectators to the beach every year. Though scheduled for January, the event is often delayed until surf conditions merit a contest. The Rincon Classic is open to area residents only.
Rincon is referenced in The Beach Boys classic song from 1962, Surfin' Safari:
At Huntington and Malibu
They're shooting the pier
At Rincon they're walking the nose
We're going on safari to the islands this year
So if you're coming get ready to go
Carlos Eduardo de Castro Lourenço, commonly known as Rincón (born 31 May 1987 in São Paulo, Brazil), is a Brazilian association footballer who currently plays for French side Troyes AC.
Rincon or Rincón (Spanish for corner) may refer to:
- Rincon (meadow)
- Rincon (abandoned meander)
A rincón is a grass meadow. The term is in wide use in English in the southwest United States, where it refers specifically to a sloping (usually steep) meadow on the south facing upper slopes of a forested mountain. These characteristic high meadows are formed by the repeated freezing and thawing of snow accumulations on south facing slopes, creating a habitat not conducive to forest. They are further maintained by a high frequency of low-intensity wildfire. A notable example of a wildfire begun in a rincon, with catastrophic consequences, was the 2000 Cerro Grande Fire in New Mexico, United States.
Usage examples of "rincon".
Ricardo Rincon, strikes out David justice on three pitches and gets Eric Chavez to pop out on four.
He had about forgotten Damond Jack McLernan, who for three years had made his hangout in the almost inaccessible fastness of the Amarillo Mountains, and from there ridden out on raids that had terrorized the Rincon Valley country.
Jerry said like hell they were and told Ricker about the time he'd gone fishing at Rincon and walked through a thicket of it, not seeing the leaves because it was winter, but how even that much exposure had been enough to make his dick swell up like a beer can.
He'd left Puerto Rico a day early, after the de la Hoya cousins wisely discarded their original explanation of the three hundred Chinese machine guns found in their beach house at Rincon (to wit: they'd unknowingly rented the place to a band of leftist guerrillas posing as American surfers).
Then Rincon himself had arrived—but the Jimminies were not allowed to see him.
They passed Pitas Point, then Rincon Point, and the beaches of Carpinteria.
Creo que el verdadero criminal mató a Kallian para conseguir lo que había en el cuenco y ahora está oculto en algún rincón del Templo.
They followed a dry watercourse up under a dark rincón in the rocks and picked their way over a flood barricade of boulders tumbled in the floor of the wash and emerged upon a stone tinaja in the center of which lay a shallow basin of water, perfectly round, perfectly black, where the night stars were lensed in perfect stillness.
The fire in the tank behind them was invisible save for the play of it on the rocks of the rincón and as they rode it receded to a faint glow pocketed in the otherwise dark of the desert night and then vanished altogether.