Barbacoa or Barbacoas may refer to:
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Barbacoa
Barbacoa or Asado en Barbacoa () in Mexico, refers to the local indigenous variation of the method of cooking in a pit or earth oven. It generally refers to slow-cooking meats or whole sheep, whole cows, whole beef heads, or whole goats in a ...
, a “Framework of sticks” or grill, from where
barbecue
Barbecue or barbeque (often shortened to BBQ worldwide; barbie or barby in Australia and New Zealand) is a term used with significant regional and national variations to describe various cooking methods that employ live fire and smoke to coo ...
and the word for this are derived. In Mexico, an
earth oven
An earth oven, ground oven or cooking pit is one of the simplest and most ancient cooking structures. The earliest known earth oven was discovered in Central Europe and dated to 29,000 BC. At its most basic, an earth oven is a pit in the ground ...
and the food being prepared.
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Barbacoan languages
Barbacoan (also Barbakóan, Barbacoano, Barbacoana) is a language family spoken in Colombia and Ecuador.
Genealogical relations
The Barbacoan languages may be related to the Páez language. Barbacoan is often connected with the Paezan language ...
Colombia
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Barbacoas, La Guajira, a village in
Riohacha Municipality, La Guajira Department
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Barbacoas Municipality, a municipality in Nariño Department,
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Barbacoas, Nariño
Barbacoas is a town and municipality in Nariño Department, Colombia. The urban centre of Barbacoas is located at an altitude of and the municipality borders Magüí Payán in the north, Magüí Payán, Cumbitara, Los Andes, Nariño, Los Andes, La ...
, a town in
Barbacoas Municipality, Nariño Department
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Barbacoas, Santander, a village in Santander Department,
Costa Rica
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Barbacoas, Costa Rica
Venezuela
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Barbacoas, Aragua
Barbacoas is a city in the state of Aragua, Venezuela. It is the shire town of the Urdaneta, Aragua, Urdaneta Municipality.
It was founded, in 1712, with the name ''San Andrés de Aricapano de Barbacoas'', and during the eighteenth century was kno ...
, a city in Aragua State
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Barbacoas, Lara, a village in
Morán Municipality
The Morán Municipality is one of the nine municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Lara and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population ...
, Lara State
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