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Answer for the clue "Southwestern box canyon ", 5 letters:
cajon

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A cajón ( , "box", "crate" or "drawer") is nominally a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru , played by slapping the front or rear faces (generally thin plywood ) with the hands, fingers, or sometimes various implements such as brushes, ...

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n. A box-shaped percussion instrument played by slapping the front or rear faces (generally thin plywood) with the hands, fingers, or sometimes various implements

Usage examples of cajon.

Madeline had planned to arrive in El Cajon on October 3d, her brother's birthday, and she had succeeded, though her arrival occurred at the twenty-fourth hour.

Nothing more was heard of Gene Stewart until April, when a report reached Stillwell that the cowboy had arrived in El Cajon, evidently hunting trouble.

Florence's sister and several friends from El Cajon were present, besides Madeline, Stillwell, and his men.

San Diego was hot, but El Cajon, twelve miles inland, was much hotter.

Meanwhile, I've got the Air Police watching Cajon Pass to San Bernardino.

From the northeast, westward, they viewed the mighty sweep of the main range to Cajon Pass and the San Gabriels, beyond, with San Antonio, Cucamonga, and their sister peaks lifting their heads above their fellows.

Looking back, they could see the valley—marked off by its roads into many squares of green, and dotted here and there by small towns and cities—stretching away toward the western ocean until it was lost in a gray-blue haze out of which the distant San Gabriels, beyond Cajon Pass, lifted into the clear sky above, like the shore-line of dreamland rising out of a dream sea.

By midafternoon, their anabasis had carried the ten thousand from Chula Vista to Encinitas, from Coronado to El Cajon.

They rode briefly in silence, moving west on El Cajon Boulevard toward Balboa.

The Alcalde and the board wanted these local projects to show that Fairmont was a good neighbor, not like some of the schools in Downtown and El Cajon.