Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Barbacoa. Barbacoa or Asado en Barbacoa (Spanish: [baɾβaˈkoa] ⓘ) in Mexico, refers to the local indigenous variation of the method of cooking in a pit or earth oven. [1] It generally refers to slow-cooking meats or whole sheep, whole cows, whole beef heads, or whole goats in a hole dug in the ground, [2] and covered with agave (maguey) leaves, although the interpretation is loose, and in ...
The original Arawak term barabicu was used to refer to a wooden framework. Among the framework's uses was the suspension of meat over a flame. The English word barbecue and its cognates in other languages come from the Spanish word barbacoa, which has its origin in an indigenous American word. [3]
Barbacoa or Barbacoas may refer to: Barbacoa , a “Framework of sticks” or grill, from where barbecue and the word for this are derived. In Mexico, an earth oven and the food being prepared.
The origin of the word Barbacoa comes from the Taino Indians in Cuba, here is a reference that goes into some detail "Pero tomemos el vocablo barbacoa, cuyo origen aruaco (específicamente, taíno) es conocido gracias a las descripciones de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo en su Historia natural y general de las Indias, quien testimonia dos de sus ...
Barbacoas is a town and municipality in Nariño Department, Colombia. [1] The urban centre of Barbacoas is located at an altitude of 36 metres (118 ft) and the municipality borders Magüí Payán in the north, Magüí Payán, Cumbitara, Los Andes, La Llanada, Samaniego and Ricaurte in the east, Ricaurte and Ecuador in the south and Tumaco and Roberto Payán in the west.
To the west the Fuerte La Punta (built in 1803) houses a restaurant; there is a small beach next to the fort. The third fort, El Castillo, which sits on a steep hill with a commanding view of the town and both bays, is now Hotel El Castillo. The other hotels in Baracoa are Hotel Porto Santo, Hotel La Rusa, Hostal La Habanera and Villa Maguana.