Spanish term
grades caminos longitudinales
... colcas y tambos construidos a lo largo de los grades caminos longitudinales y de penetración a la amazonía, de más de 900 kilómetros, como el de Quito-Tulcan hasta el lago Manoa o Parime en la cuenca del rio....
Any hints on how to translate "los grados caminos longitudinales"? Gracias!!
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| 3 +2 | great roads running north-south |
Christine Walsh
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| 4 +3 | the heavily traveled routes going north-south [and penetrating the Amazon] |
Muriel Vasconcellos
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| 4 +1 | great longitudinal roads |
Constantinos Faridis (X)
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| 3 +1 | main north-south routes |
David Hollywood
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Non-PRO (1): Rosa Paredes
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Proposed translations
great roads running north-south
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Note added at 32 mins (2010-09-27 02:51:44 GMT)
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The 'colcas' and 'tambos' appear to have been wayside storehouses.
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Travelin Ann
: although I would prefer "major" roads running north-south. Great sounds "big," while "major" sounds primary, at least to my US EN ear// principal sounds good and probably bridges the UK/US language gap
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Thanks, Ann! 'Major' would be just fine; though my Brit's ear is very familiar with 'great Roman roads'. 'Grandes' in Spanish creates the same impression, actually. I'd probably use 'principales' or 'importantes'.
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Rosa Paredes
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Thanks, Rosa!
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philgoddard
: "Great roads" means they're famous or very important - this just means "main" or "principal".
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Thanks Phil. However, there's a 'camino del inca' in north-western Argentina; I've been on it, and I think 'great' would apply.
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United States
Each translation a gem!
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: Spanish to English, Portuguese to English
the heavily traveled routes going north-south [and penetrating the Amazon]
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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-09-27 05:07:40 GMT)
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These are actually trade routes.
I should have said 'routes running north-south' is actually more common (16,000 hits) vs. 'routes going north-south' (4,300 hits). Examples:
... had built state in Tigris River valley during nineteenth century B.C.E. Took advantage of location on trade routes running north/south and east/west, ...
www.scribd.com › School Work › Study Guides, Notes, & Quizzes
Key pre-historic trade routes running north-south ran down modern day Ivy Lane and Church Terrace, while the main route between Warwick and London forms ...
www.harbury-pc.gov.uk/history.htm
The chronological position of the sites of Harageh and Gerzeh, located at a key-point along the trade routes running north/south at a crucial moment in ...
grepal.free.fr/articles/luc_watrin_icom_anglais.pdf
flourishing caravan trade routes running north south and east west through. Mecca (Nehls 1994:2). Unfortunately, however, he had contact with a ...
upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/submitted/etd-12052005.../04chapter4.pdf
Apr 2, 2010 ... Laodicea · Located at a crossroads of trade routes running north/south from Pergamum all the way to the Mediterranean Sea and east/west from ...
www.docstoc.com/docs/...
It also straddles two key communication routes running north-south and east-west with the entrance to Glendale forming the junction of these two axes. ...
www.philipcoppens.com/log_art2.html
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Evans (X)
: I like this. It avoids the word "roads" which is perhaps misleading in this historical context. I also agree that "running north-south" is a better option here.
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Thanks, Gilla!
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Bubo Coroman (X)
: reminds me of the Silk Road http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road
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Thanks, Deborah!
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Catherine Gilsenan
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Thanks, Catherine!
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great longitudinal roads
www.thisischile.cl/Articles.aspx?...longitudinal-road..
Knowledge of the longitudinal road gradient can be used by Advanced Cruise Control (ACC) and automatic transmission control systems to provide more accurate ...
ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1244233
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martamp
: I'd keep the term "longitudinal" as in the original text
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thanks! finally a correct translator!!
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worked for int. orgs (IMF, OAS, IDB)
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
main north-south routes
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Note added at 3 hrs (2010-09-27 05:50:56 GMT)
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a wee bit free but I think first of all that it should read "grandes" and so I would now suggest "major etc."
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Muriel Vasconcellos
: That won't fit with the rest of the sentence because you have to characterize the roads as both north-south and penetrating into the Amazon.
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philgoddard
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Discussion
1 (RPl)
a (establecimiento) dairy farm
b (corral) milking yard
2 (Méx)
a (recipiente) bin; mover el tambo (Méx fam & hum) to boogie (colloq)
b (fam) (cárcel) slammer (sl), can (AmE sl)
3 (Per)
a (Hist) (posada) wayside inn
b (tienda) wayside stall