Barranca (Spanish for "canyon" or "ravine"), may refer to:

Geography

Argentina

Barranca Yaco Barranca de Yaco or Barranca Yaco (from the Spanish ''barranca'' (gully) and the Quechua ''yaku'' (water)) is a geographical feature along the ancient ''camino real'' (''royal road'') of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, located between V ...

, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, Argentina

Chile

* Barrancas, Pichilemu, a village in Pichilemu

Colombia

Barrancas, La Guajira Barrancas is a town and municipality in the Colombian Departments of Colombia, Department of La Guajira Department, La Guajira. The municipality of Barrancas is located to the west of the Ranchería River in a valley between the Sierra Nevada de S ...

, town and municipality of the Colombian Department of La Guajira * Barranca de Upía, a town and municipality in the Meta Department, Colombia *

Barrancabermeja Barrancabermeja () is a municipality and city in Colombia, located on the shore of the Magdalena River, in the western part of the department of Santander. It is home to the largest oil refinery in the country, under direct management of ECOP ...

, Colombia

Costa Rica

* Barranca, a district of

Puntarenas Puntarenas () is a city in the Puntarenas Province, on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. As the seat of the Municipality of Puntarenas canton, it is awarded the title of city, which comprises the Puntarenas, Chacarita and El Roble districts. A ...

, Costa Rica

Guatemala

* Barranca Grande, a city in

San Marcos Department San Marcos is a department in southwestern Guatemala, on the Pacific Ocean and along the western Guatemala-Mexico border. The department's capital is the city of San Marcos. History Colonial period The Spanish conquest of Guatemalan Highl ...

, Guatemala * La Barranca, an aldea of Colotenango, in Huehuetenango, Guatemala * Aldea La Barranca, Cunén,

Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...

* Barranca Honda,

Jutiapa Jutiapa is a city and a municipality in the Jutiapa department of Guatemala. Located 124 km from the city of Guatemala City, at an altitude of 892 m (2,926 ft), it is the capital of the department of Jutiapa. Its Catedral San Crist ...

, Guatemala * Barranca Seca,

Zacapa Zacapa () is the departmental capital municipality of Zacapa Department, one of the 22 Departments of Guatemala. It is located approximately from Guatemala City Guatemala City (, also known colloquially by the nickname Guate), is the Capit ...

, Guatemala * Barrancas,

Chiquimula Chiquimula is a city in Guatemala. It is the capital of the department of Chiquimula and the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is located some 174 km from Guatemala City and within Guatemala known as "La p ...

, Guatemala * Barranca, Izabal, Guatemala * Barrancas de Galvez, a city in

, Guatemala

Mexico

* Barranca de Otates, a pueblo in Zacoalco municipality, Jalisco, Mexico *

Barranca del Cobre Copper Canyon (Spanish: Barrancas del Cobre) is a group of six distinct canyons in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the southwestern part of the state of Chihuahua in northwestern Mexico that is in size. The canyons were formed by six rivers th ...

("Copper Canyon"), Mexico * Metro Barranca del Muerto, metro station in Mexico City

Peru

* Barranca District, Datem del Marañón in the Loreto Region * Barranca District, Barranca in the Lima Region * Barranca Province in the Lima Region *

Barranca, Lima Barranca is a city in coastal Peru, capital of the Barranca Province in the Department of Lima. Historically it started out as a small settlement port made up of local fisherman supplying fish alongside the port of Callao. It is, however, the ...

United States

* Barranca, a town in

Rio Arriba County, New Mexico Rio Arriba County () is a List of counties in New Mexico, county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 40,363. Its county seat is Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, Tierra Amarilla. Its ...

, USA *

Barrancas National Cemetery Barrancas National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at Naval Air Station Pensacola, in the city of Pensacola, Florida. It encompasses , and as of 2021 had over 50,000 interments. History The area has been used as a burial ...

, a United States National Cemetery located at Naval Air Station Pensacola, in the city of Pensacola, Florida *

Fort Barrancas Fort Barrancas (1839) or Fort San Carlos de Barrancas (from 1787) is a United States military fort and National Historic Landmark in the former Warrington area of Pensacola, Florida, located physically within Naval Air Station Pensacola, which ...

, in the Warrington area of Pensacola, Florida *

The Barranca Arroyo Conejo Open Space is a open space reserve in the western Simi Hills in northern Newbury Park, Ventura County, California. Most of it is part of the Arroyo Conejo Nature Preserve (sometimes shortened to the Arroyo Nature Preserve).Maxwe ...

, in

Newbury Park, California Newbury Park is a populated placeReal Estate Communications, Inc. (1984). ''California Real Estate Directory''. Page 201. in Ventura County, California, United States. Most of it lies within the western Thousand Oaks, California, Thousand Oaks ...

Fiction

* Las Barrancas, a fictional town in a fictional county in the computer game, '' Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'' * The guide

Barranca Barranca (Spanish for "canyon" or "ravine"), may refer to: Geography Argentina * Barranca Yaco, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, Argentina Chile * Barrancas, Pichilemu, a village in Pichilemu Colombia * Barrancas, La Guajira, town and ...

in the opening scenes of ''

Raiders of the Lost Ark ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. Set in 1936, the film stars Harrison Ford as Indiana ...

'' * The setting of the 1939

Howard Hawks Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896December 26, 1977) was an American film director, Film producer, producer, and screenwriter of the Classical Hollywood cinema, classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American ...

film ''

Only Angels Have Wings ''Only Angels Have Wings'' is a 1939 American adventure romantic drama film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, and is based on a story written by Hawks. Its plot follows the manager of an air freight company in a r ...

Music

* La Barranca rock group from Mexico City