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  • noun Plural form of arroyo.

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Examples

  • The desert willow (mimbre) has spectacular pink, to white flowers in arroyos throughout the Chihuahuan Desert Region.

    Wildflower hunting in Durango 2008

  • Another indicated that the water in arroyos and other drainage becomes quite foamy.

    Septic Systems in La Floresta, Ajijic 2008

  • The desert willow (mimbre) has spectacular pink, to white flowers in arroyos throughout the Chihuahuan Desert Region.

    Wildflower hunting in Durango 2008

  • Water spreading was commonly used by natives of arid southwestern North America including the Tohono O’Odham, although only a few practice it today. 35 Stream channels (known by the Spanish term arroyos) are dry most of the year, but will flood after an intense summer rainstorm.

    5. How plants live and grow 1991

  • But I was wondering about the road widening at Lake side. (there was mention of federal land at the side of the road) and the "Arroyos" above the road between Joco and Chapala. (are not the arroyos federal land?)

    Page 2 2009

  • But I was wondering about the road widening at Lake side. (there was mention of federal land at the side of the road) and the "Arroyos" above the road between Joco and Chapala. (are not the arroyos federal land?) "the paranoid style" or

    Page 2 2009

  • When we go hiking, we like to follow the path of the arroyos and learn where the water flows -- leading to a working appreciation of the fact that similar networks exist underground in order to supply most of our water.

    Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes Randall Amster 2011

  • But I was wondering about the road widening at Lake side. (there was mention of federal land at the side of the road) and the "Arroyos" above the road between Joco and Chapala. (are not the arroyos federal land?)

    Page 2 2009

  • When we go hiking, we like to follow the path of the arroyos and learn where the water flows -- leading to a working appreciation of the fact that similar networks exist underground in order to supply most of our water.

    Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes Randall Amster 2011

  • But I was wondering about the road widening at Lake side. (there was mention of federal land at the side of the road) and the "Arroyos" above the road between Joco and Chapala. (are not the arroyos federal land?) "the paranoid style" or

    Page 2 2009

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  • the plural of arroyo

    July 21, 2009