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A trapiche is a type of mill used to extract juice.
Trapiche may also refer to:
- Trapiche (Canary Islands), a neighbourhood in the municipality of Arucas, Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria
- Trapiche, San Luis, a city in San Luis Province of Argentina
- Trapiche (winery), a winery in Mendoza, Argentina
- Trapiche, a neighborhood in Maceió, state of Alagoas, Brazil
- Trapiche, a star-shaped pattern of inclusions sometimes found in gemstones, including trapiche emerald, ruby, sapphire and tourmaline
Trapiche is a neighborhood in the municipality of Arucas, Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria (a Spanish territory).
Category:Populated places in Gran Canaria
Trapiche is a winery in Mendoza, Argentina. It was founded in 1883 and consists of over 1000 hectares between several Mendoza vineyards. It is a two-time winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition Argentinian Wine Producer of the Year award, and is the largest producer of wine in Argentina. Trapiche is owned by Grupo Peñaflor, one of the first ten wine producers in the world.
A trapiche is a mill used to extract the juice of determinate fruits of the land, originally from olives and since the Middle Ages, from the cane of sugar as well, meaning some times, the whole plantation. The word has its origin in the Latin trapetum that means press of oil. From the sicilian language trapetto the term, crossing the Mozarab Valencia, with its typical change of termination to «-ig» via the catalan language (trapig -Gandía, 1536-, trapitz de canyamel -Mallorca, 1466-) has arrived to the other languages of the Iberian peninsula as trapiche. In the documents of the Duke of Gandía from the beginning of the fifteen century, one can see the term «trapig de canyamel», as a synecdoche to indicate the whole sugar engenho due to the fact that the mill was used in the middle of the plantations. According to Herrera: "..es de notar que antiguamente no auia azucar, sino en Valencia..." ("note that in the old days there was no sugar, but in Valencia".)