bajada
an alluvial plain formed at the base of a mountain by the coalescing of several alluvial fans.
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How to use bajada in a sentence
The bajada Nature Trail, near the Gateway trailhead, is a figure-eight you can do as either a half- or a quarter-mile loop.
After twenty miles appeared La bajada Hill, crossing the trail at right angles.
Across America by Motor-cycle | C. K. ShepherdBelow the bajada the height of the floods progressively declines.
The Argentine Republic | Pierre DenisIn 1827 the inhabitants of bajada went there in such numbers that the town was half deserted.
The Argentine Republic | Pierre DenisDuring this first phase the curve of the bajada is parallel (thirteen days later) to that of Posadas.
The Argentine Republic | Pierre Denis
British Dictionary definitions for bajada
/ Spanish (baˈxada) /
rugby Union a scrummaging technique, developed in Argentina, in which all eight forwards in a pack drive forward low and hard
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