Crossword-Solution: BANCOS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The first is known by the name of banks (bancos); they are in reality shoals in the basin of the steppes, fractured strata of sandstone, or compact limestone, standing four or five feet higher than the rest of the plain.

These streams scarcely flow at all toward the north; so that in the centre of the Llanos there remain vast tracts of land called bancos and mesas* frightfully parched.

These shoals are distinguished on the west by the name of Gardens (Jardines y Jardinillos); and on the east, by the names Cayo Breton, Cayos de las doce Leguas, and Bancos de Buena Esperanza.

Esos bancos prestan también sobre ciertos cultivos, y suelen adelantar dinero con hipoteca a industriales para el fomento de sus negocios.

This fertility is due to the nature of the alluvial soil, which for ages has collected in what are locally termed _bancos_; areas or deposits specially suitable for the cultivation of the cocoa-trees.