[a. Sp. cañada ‘a dale between two mountains,’ f. caño tube, gutter, caña reed.] In the Western States of N. America: A narrow valley or glen; a ravine or small cañon.
1850. B. Taylor, Eldorado, I. xiii. 131. Descending a long cañada in the mountains.
1879. Beerbohm, Patagonia, iv. 48. The cañada … was about a mile and a half broad.
1881. Raymond, Mining Gloss., Cañada.… A ravine, or small cañon.
