quebrada

A ravine or valley in Latin America.

Noun

  1. A ravine or valley in Latin America.
    • Later, friends told me of the dangers of absorbing fright illness and mal aire from the quebrada, especially from eggs and other curing paraphernalia discarded there. - 2003, Joan Koss-Chioino, Thomas L. Leatherman,...

Origin

Etymology tree Spanish quebradabor. English quebrada Borrowed from Spanish quebrada.

Forms

quebradas quebrado