A mountain gorge. Spanish.
1846. The mountains on either side of the cañada or gorge are precipitous, and tower upwards several thousand feet above the level upon which we are travelling…. There seems to be an abundance of pine and red-wood (a species of fir) in the cañadas.—Edwin Bryant, ‘What I saw in California,’ pp. 148, 357 (N.Y.). (Italics in the original.)
1850. Descending a long cañada in the mountains.—Bayard Taylor, ‘Eldorado,’ xiii. (1862). (N.E.D.)
