thumb|right|300px|A Wayuu rancheria, located in the [[Guajira Peninsula, Colombia]]
thumb|right|300px|A Wayuu rancheria, located in the [[Guajira Peninsula, Colombia]]
The Spanish word ranchería, or rancherío, refers to a small, rural settlement. In the Americas the term was applied to native villages or bunkhouses. Anglo-Americans adopted the term with both these meanings, usually to designate the residential area of a rancho in the American Southwest, housing aboriginal ranch hands and their families. The term is still used in other parts of Spanish America; for example, the Wayuu tribes in northern Colombia call their villages rancherías.
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