Monday, February 22, 2010

Word of the Day: Palenque

Palenque can mean any number of things in Spanish, from a fence post (or tethering post) to a cockfight. My first exposure to the word was when I was studying slavery in the New World, in which context it means a society of marooned (escaped) slaves.

In Costa Rica, however, palenque is almost exclusively reserved as a generic term for indigenous reservations.

In Costa Rica:

Palenque = reserva indígena


2 comments:

www.gerona-3d.com said...

It cannot have effect in reality, that is what I think.

Costa Rica Real Estate said...

I am confused about that....I agree with you that palenque is almost exclusively reserved as a generic term for indigenous reservations.