Potrero (ƙasa)

potrero wani tsawo ne wanda a gefe ɗaya ya gangara sama zuwa ƙasa mafi girma. Wannan yanayin yana faruwa ne a gefen dutse, a matsayin wani ɓangare na tsaunin da aka rarraba.

Kalmar aro daga Harshen Mutanen Espanya, potrero ana amfani da shi a yanzu a kudu maso yammacin Amurka, inda wani lokacin ana fassara shi a matsayin "harshe na ƙasa" da "ƙananan yanki na makiyaya".John Peabody Harrington (1916) The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians, pages 29–618 in Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1907–1908, Government Printing Office, Washington. Page 259. A cikin harshen Mutanen Espanya, duk da haka, ma'anar "harshe na ƙasa" tsoho ne.

Har ila yau archaic shine ma'anar potrero wanda ke nufin wani wanda ke jayayya da 'ya'yan (potros a cikin Mutanen Espanya) wanda aka ajiye a matsayin kayan kiwo (ba saddle ko kayan kwalliya ba). A cikin Mutanen Espanya, ma'anar potrero yanzu tana nufin kowane ƙasa (kamar ranch, budewa, ko makiyaya na al'umma) inda ake ajiye irin waɗannan dawakai.

Sanannen misalai na potreros sun haɗa da wasu daga cikin mesas da yawa na Pajarito Plateau kusa da Santa Fe, New Mexico ( United States ) .Wadannan "yatsa mesas" sun kasance ci gaba da ajiya na toka mai aman wuta ( Bandelier Tuff ). Ruwa sai a datse tuff zuwa cikin kwalaye masu nisa kusan daidai. Lokacin da tsohon Pueblos ya watsar da Chaco Canyon, wasu sun ƙaura zuwa Pajarito Plateau kuma suka sassaƙa manyan gidaje kai tsaye cikin tuffa mai laushi a gindin potreros. Sun kuma yi gini a saman tukwane da kuma kan benayen kwarin.  Wasu daga cikin waɗannan gidaje da kuma kewayen potreros ana kiyaye su a Bandelier National Monument . A tarihi, ana amfani da waɗannan potreros azaman wuraren kiwo na hunturu don dabbobi (dawakai, tumaki, da shanu) waɗanda ake kaiwa da komowa daga wuraren kiwo na bazara a cikin manyan kwarin ciyawa ( kwaruruwan ) na Valles Caldera . A yau, waɗannan potreros ana amfani da su ta wannan hanya ta babban garke na alkama . Wadannan potreros rukunai ne na dabi'a, tare da babban fita ɗaya kawai: kunkuntar haɗi zuwa ƙasa mafi girma.

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