la patera - a type of small flat-bottomed boat with no keelSpanish example: Un grupo de 48 inmigrantes indocumentados de origen subsahariano ha sido detenido por la Guardia Civil después de que desembarcaran de una patera que arribó a la playa Poris.
English example: A group of 48 undocumented sub-Saharan immigrants have been detained by the Civil Guard after they disembarked from a small boat that landed at Poris Beach.
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la patera - a type of small flat-bottomed boat with no keel