breñón

17:51 Oct 23, 2011 

Thank you -- I have a better picture now that I have gotten the idea of an earthen wall out of my head.

17:25 Oct 23, 2011 

Hmm... yes, I've been trying to picture the scene myself. Although the "pared de tierra tipo breñón, con una altura de unos treinta metros" sounds at first like a kind of mound or earthwork, what must have happened is that the vehicle came off the road and fell down the "pared", so the ground fell away. So I guess we are dealing with the "tierra quebrada" kind of "breña", rough and rocky. It sounds like a gully or something like that. I'm not sure how to express it: something like "a steep brush-covered incline", maybe?

17:06 Oct 23, 2011 

Thank you very much..I am wondering if you can make this meaning fit my context of a "pared"? -- do you think it would be a brushy cliff wall?