What is "tinajas"

Usage examples of "tinajas".

This led straight away south now for the Tinajas Altas, which were on a ridge that trailed off the end of the Gilas.

These natural tanks were the only water he knew of south of Tinajas Altas on which a man could rely, and even they might on occasion be empty or down to mere dregs.

Long ago he had scouted that country in company with a Papago who knew the desert wells and the tinajas, and Considine had mapped those places in his mind.

The tinajas where water could be had were few, and to miss one might well be fatal.

Where four men might slip through if they knew the tinajas and the seeps, a large party like the posse could not.

Such a tank might exist high in the rocks as at Tinajas Altas, where men had died within a few feet of water they could not find, or who lacked the strength for the climb to its place among the high rocks.

The only water on it is at Tinajas Altas, some tanks in the rocks of a ridge above the trail.

Near such tanks in the Tinajas Altas men had died of thirst within a few feet of water, unaware of its presence.

If he reached the tinajas and they held water he would have achieved one goal.

Shannon pointed to a small snake Pitt had drawn that coiled around a high rock outcropping halfway between the marsh and the foothills of the Las Tinajas Mountains.