Local residents call the neighborhood the Heights because of its steep terrain and riverside bluffs, not because it has vertigo-inducing buildings.
Find a good In general, to catch a barra, look for a deep spot, with a steep muddy or rocky riverside, with lots of vegetation, few trees, stumps, mangroves or bushes within the water, places wherever a barra may hide.
Perched on steep cliffs above this curious little riverside town, which is just a mile long and 500 feet deep, is a ghostly granite-and-limestone group of buildings that have preoccupied residents for decades.
After lunch we visited the chateau of the celebrated de la Rochefoucauld family in La Roche-Guyon, which is sheltered by a steep chalk cliff and has an 18th-century riverside garden that was restored in 2004.
In the riverside village of Pradines, just before Cahors, the steep flower-lined streets yielded nothing in the way of provisions.
Our journey had started two days earlier, up in the German part of the Moselle, where the steep banks were corduroyed with vineyards, and the ledges of riverside land were tessellated with villages.
Steep slopes (≥ 15°), poorly covered lands (croplands and savannas), and riversides (distances ≤ 100 m) are critical areas of sediment sources.
The gap is largest in "rebound" markets--those which are bouncing back from steep price declines after the bubble burst -- specifically in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., and Sacramento, where home prices rose more than rents by at least 7 percentage points.
It stands on a ridge overlooking steep hillsides at the end of a bruising dirt track, an hour by jeep from the riverside town of San Pablo, on the Magdalena in the south of Bolivar department.
