A common place name in the Southwest, from a Spanish term, it's a dry river bed
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San Diego County Place Names | Etymology  San Diego County-specific excerpts from the book California Place Names: The ... The most common, agua caliente, for warm springs, has survived in a .... Encina (live oak) and its diminutive, encinita, are frequent in California place names. ... pit, or river bed), is a Mexican geographical term, repeatedly found in Spanish...
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Arroyo (creek) - Wikipedia  An arroyo also called a wash, is a dry creek, stream bed or gulch that temporarily or seasonally fills and flows after sufficient rain. Flash floods are common in arroyos following thunderstorms. In Latin America any small river might be called an arroyo, even if it flows ... The desert dry wash biome is restricted to the arroyos of the southwestern...
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Free Flashcards about PLACE NAMES - StudyStack  A COMMON PLACE NAME IN THE SOUTHWEST, FROM A SPANISH TERM, IT'S A DRY RIVER BED, ARROYO. ONE GREEK ISLAND IS THE SUPPOSED...
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Colorado River - Wikipedia  The Colorado River (Spanish: Ro Colorado) is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern ... The river and its tributaries are controlled by an extensive system of dams, reservoirs, and ..... Valley, leaving a dry riverbed from Morelos Dam to the sea that is supplemented by intermittent flows of irrigation drainage water.
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Red River of the South - Wikipedia  The Red River, or sometimes the Red River of the South, is a major tributary of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers in the southern United States of America. The river was named for the red-bed country of its watershed. It is one of several rivers with that name. ... (The names mean "Hard Wood" and "White Land", respectively, in Spanish.).
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Lake Poop - Wikipedia  Lake Poop (Spanish: Lago Poop) was a large saline lake located in a shallow depression in ... The South Poop inhabitants developed a unique style of ceramics style with triangular spirals. The east ... There are numerous smaller inlets along the eastern shore of the lake, many of which are dry most of the year. At times...
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Rocky's taxi and tour service [Archive] - Page 2 - The Negril ...  The Spaniards called the area "Las Chorreras", the waterfalls or springs .... means "Eight Rivers" but it could be a corruption of Las Chorreras, the .... According to Jamaican folklore, Jamaica music originated from the Christian culture. ..... the Caves are located between the resort centres of Ocho Rios and...
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Rivers | Texas Almanac  The snow-fed flow of the Rio Grande is used for irrigation in Colorado below the San ... Turning south, it flows through a canyon in northern New Mexico and again ... of the Chisos Mountains as the southern boundary of Big Bend National Park. ... sparse vegetation, and, in the lowermost reaches of the river, deep canyons.
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Jeopary Questions page 761 - THE BARD WRITES - TriviaBistro.com  ARCHITECTURE: Adobe was a common material in the Southwest U.S. style of architecture named for these church outposts  HISTORIC RHYME TIME: William...
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Texas facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ...  The Balcones Escarpment (so-called by the Spanish because its sharp profile suggests ... In all, Texas has about 3,700 identifiable streams, many of which dry up in the .... Texas wild rice and several cactus species are classified as endangered .... the Superfund program for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites in the state.
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Free Flashcards about CITIES - StudyStack  THE NAME OF THIS MINNESOTA CITY COMES FROM AN INDIAN WORD FOR "WATER" .... IN SEARCHING FOR THE 7 CITIES OF CIBOLA, HE AND HIS MEN ..... SPANISH EXPLORERS CALLED THE VILLAGES OF THESE PUEBLO...
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The Great Depression by jose parra on Prezi  Apr 24, 2015 ... The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. ... and Texas panhandles and neighboring sections of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, .... 76th Street, sprayed a group of young boys with a hose while they were playing outside.
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The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin : chapter7  I found in the stomachs of two which I opened the remains of mice, and I one ... This river is also called the Saladillo, and it deserves the name, for the water is brackish. ... We passed through Corunda, which, from the luxuriance of its gardens, was ... into the bed of a muddy estuary, into which floating carcasses were swept.
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Grand Canyon Place Names! The story behind the name!  Ballenger, Mormon settlement on the Little Colorado River named and founded by Jesse O. ... William Wallace Bass was an early settler, guide and explorer. ... Arizona" USGS Water-Supply Paper 1475-C, by D.G. Metzger, 1961. ... Cane Canyon, From the Kaibab National Forest Map, 1926 a canyon and stream running...
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Bordertown bonanza - NY Daily News  Apr 15, 2007 ... Here's a tour of Big Bend country. ... A stop sign in Ojinaga, Mexico, across the Rio Grande river from Presidio, Texas. ... to Boca Chica, where the watery border intersects with the Gulf of Mexico, the ... Big Bend National Park ... of the border, Boca Chica ("small mouth") is named for the shallow mouth of the...
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Colorado River - Wikipedia  The Colorado River (Spanish: Ro Colorado) is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern ... The 1,450-mile (2,330 km) Colorado River drains an expansive, arid ... Major engineering of the river basin began around the start of the 20th .... Bullhead City, Arizona, Needles, California, and Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Here...
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The Colorado River Runs Dry | Science | Smithsonian  Utah's Lake Powell has a "bathtub ring" that rises at least 70 feet above the water. ... to the lush wetlands of a vast delta in Mexico and into the Gulf of California. .... When we talk about overpopulation, it is usually connected to the lack of arable...
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Instructions - Sheppard Software  Note: residents of eastern Idaho generally call the Snake prior to this joining ... Variant names of the river have included: The Colorado River is a river in the ... The lower course of the river, which forms the border between Baja .... river in the United States and drains approximately one-sixth of the North American continent.
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A - An Annotated Bibliography of the Tohono O'odham (Papago ...  A history of the Papago people for use at Indian Oasis Junior High, Sells, .... AThis desert people, once called Papagos before they reasserted the name ..... [This report, dated September 6, 1870, was written in Arizona City, Arizona Territory. ...... Roughly, it means 'spring at the foot of a black mountain,' and referred to the...
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LiveLeak.com - Myths of Israel (comments)  Jan 3, 2009 ... The Comanche are an offshoot of the Shoshone and one of several ... Their name comes from the Spanish camino ancho, which means "wide...
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Free Flashcards about CITIES - StudyStack  CHIEF CITIES ON THE BANKS OF THIS HUDSON RIVER TRIBUTARY INCLUDE ROME, UTICA, ... FROM SPANISH, THE NAME OF THIS TEXAS CITY REFERS TO THE YELLOWISH BANKS OF A NEARBY STREAM, AMARILLO. AT LEAST...