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cerrar el codo

English translation: line the oxbow / horseshoe bend

10:35 Jan 13, 2017
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Geography / Rivers
Spanish term or phrase: cerrar el codo
Esta espléndida necrópolis se sitúa a unos 80 km al sur de Zagora (sur de Marruecos), a ambos lados de un paso de montaña, llamado “La Boca de los Túmulos”, Foum al Rajm en árabe, que atraviesa los escarpes rocosos que cierran el codo del Río Draa hacia el noreste.
Lorna O'Donoghue
Local time: 06:51
English translation:line the oxbow / horseshoe bend
Explanation:
the rocky escarpments that line the River Draa's oxbow / horseshoe bend to the northeast
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Simon Bruni
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:51
Grading comment
Thanks for the help Simon
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4 +2line the oxbow / horseshoe bend
Simon Bruni
4course
jude dabo


  

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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
line the oxbow / horseshoe bend


Explanation:
the rocky escarpments that line the River Draa's oxbow / horseshoe bend to the northeast

Simon Bruni
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:51
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 35
Grading comment
Thanks for the help Simon

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cornelius Gillen: horseshoe bend preferable, I'd say
1 hr
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
11 hrs
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
course


Explanation:
that closed the course of the river draa

jude dabo
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