Salado
Americannoun
noun
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a river in N Argentina, rising in the Andes as the Juramento and flowing southeast to the Paraná River. Length: 2012 km (1250 miles)
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a river in W Argentina, rising near the Chilean border as the Desaguadero and flowing south to the Colorado River. Length: about 1365 km (850 miles)
Example Sentences
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The regulator also requested a study to verify whether the volumes of water extracted by Ojos del Salado mine have detrimented nearby aquifers.
From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2022
A day earlier, 23 people were injured in the central Texas town of Salado.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 14, 2022
The storms caused widespread damage in Salado, about 50 miles north of Austin.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2022
Jim Paluzzi, a vice president at Rio Salado College in Tempe, home of the public radio station, said the ad resonated like no other, with remarkable audience recall.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2017
The nature of these specimens suggests that parts of the Río Salado drainage north and east of Cuatro Ciénegas are in a zone of intergradation between taylori and elegans.
From A New Supspecies of Slider Turtle (Pseudemys scripta) from Coahuila, Mexico by Legler, John M.
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