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n. In the southwestern US, a slope, specifically part of a piedmont slope made of rocky detritus.
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Bajada or La Bajada are derived from Spanish meaning "the descent"
Bajada or La Bajada may refer to:
Places
- La Bajada, Dallas
- La Bajada, New Mexico
- La Bajada, Catamarca
- La Bajada, San Luis
- La Bajada, an escarpment of the Caja del Rio, New Mexico, USA
- La Bajada Hill, a notoriously-steep 1926 - 1932 segment of U.S. Route 66 in New Mexico
People
- Emilio Bajada (born 1914), Italian Mathematician
- Toni Bajada, a Maltese spy for the Knights of Saint John during the Great Siege of Malta
- Clint Bajada (born 1982), Maltese TV and radio personality
- Roderick Bajada (born 1983), Maltese footballer
- Shaun Bajada (born 1983), Maltese footballer
- Mikaela Bajada (born December 31, 1998), member of the Maltese electro-pop duo, Francesca & Mikaela
Other
- Bajada (festival) a festival common to the Canary islands
- Bajada (geography), a compound Alluvial fan
"Bajada" is the shortened version of the Fiestas de la Bajada which is a festival which takes place in several places in the Canary Islands. Bajada is Spanish for "bringing down", and means the bringing of a patron saint's statue from its normal place in a chapel to be celebrated by the people.
A bajada consists of a series of coalescing alluvial fans along a mountain front. These fan-shaped deposits form from the deposition of sediment within a stream onto flat land at the base of a mountain. The usage of the term in landscape description or geomorphology derives from the Spanish word bajada, generally having the sense of "descent" or "inclination".
Usage examples of "bajada".
The bajada here was all thorn and spine as they wound their way between ocotillo, cholla, prickly pear, barrel, and saguaro cacti.
She was no longer in the cave, but out on the scrub slopes of the bajada, a great-aunt of a saguaro rearing tall above her, signaling some slow semaphore to her relatives on a distant slope.
By evening all the north country was black and the wind was cold and he picked his way along the rim country through the sparse swales of grass and broken volcanic rock and he sat above a highland bajada in the cold blue dusk with the rifle across his knee while the staked horses grazed behind him and at the last hour light enough by which to see the iron sights of the rifle five deer entered the bajada and pricked their ears and stood and then bent to graze.
He rode on, the two horses following, riding doves up out of the pools of standing water and the sun descending out of the dark discolored overcast to the west where its redness ran down the narrow band of sky above the mountains like blood falling through water and the desert fresh from the rain turning gold in the evening light and then deepening to dark, a slow inkening over of the bajada and the rising hills and the stark stone length of the cordilleras darkening far to the south in Mexico.