Salado
Americannoun
noun
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a river in N Argentina, rising in the Andes as the Juramento and flowing southeast to the Paraná River. Length: 2012 km (1250 miles)
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a river in W Argentina, rising near the Chilean border as the Desaguadero and flowing south to the Colorado River. Length: about 1365 km (850 miles)
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It crashed around 1:30 p.m. local time south of Salado, which is about 50 miles north of Austin, Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
In Salado, Texas, Bethany Saunders saw the rate she paid for electricity double in August, and her water bill jumped as well as she dealt with a summer heat and drought.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
The regulator also requested a study to verify whether the volumes of water extracted by Ojos del Salado mine have detrimented nearby aquifers.
From Reuters ● Aug. 17, 2022
The storms caused widespread damage in Salado, about 50 miles north of Austin.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2022
It is far superior to the rude pottery of the eastern pueblos, and is also considerably better than that of the great villages of the Gila and Salado.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes
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