bajada
1
9.8
- noun
- /bəˈhɑːdə/
- Specialized
:
bajada
Examples
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One morning, a coyote appears in the early light, lopes down the bajada and along the road, and stops between our houses.
Fiction book (2002) -
In a single day, they carved a road across the bajada above Senora Astacio's house.
Fiction book (2002) -
Milton wheeled, pursuing at full gallop out of the canyon and onto the bajada.
Fiction book (1990) -
It's a bleak landscape: to the east, the rocky ridges of the Galiuro Mountains and the dry bajada that fans down from the canyon; to the west, pale blue distance.
Fiction book (2002) -
As he pulled up to the junction of the clearing, he glanced out across the bajada to admire the landscape.
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Tomorrow I will hike out from the bajada, leaving the ripened fruits and oven heat of August behind.
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Because bajadas retain more rainwater than neighboring soils, they are botanical meccas in a desert known for biotic extravagance.
How Wide
- Specialized
1
5.8
- Specialized
1
9.8
- Specialized
1
7.5
72
3.1
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bajada comes from the Spanish verb bajar 'to go down'; imagine rain and gravel running down a mountain and spreading out to make a wide, gentle slope of sand and stones. That image explains why a bajada is the broad, sloping area at the base of a mountain.