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cañada
1[ kuhn-yah-duh, -yad-uh ]
noun
- a dry riverbed.
- a small, deep canyon.
Canada
2[ kan-uh-duh ]
noun
- a nation in N North America: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 3,690,410 sq. mi. (9,558,160 sq. km). : Ottawa.
Canada
/ ˈkænədə /
noun
- a country in North America: the second largest country in the world; first permanent settlements by Europeans were made by the French from 1605; ceded to Britain in 1763 after a series of colonial wars; established as the Dominion of Canada in 1867; a member of the Commonwealth. It consists generally of sparsely inhabited tundra regions, rich in natural resources, in the north, the Rocky Mountains in the west, the Canadian Shield in the east, and vast central prairies; the bulk of the population is concentrated along the US border and the Great Lakes in the south. Languages: English and French. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: Canadian dollar. Capital: Ottawa. Pop: 34 568 211 (2013 est). Area: 9 976 185 sq km (3 851 809 sq miles)
Canada
- Nation in northern North America , bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Pacific Ocean and Alaska to the west, and the United States to the south. Its capital is Ottawa , and its largest city is Toronto . In area, Canada is the second largest nation in the world, behind Russia .
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He went to public school until the 7th grade, and then attended Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada Flintridge, California.
Santa Cruz de la Cañada, which was close to it, was said to have took the cake for toughness before railroad times.
The plan was to allow the Queres to come up undisturbed as far as the north side of the Cañada.
It was past midnight when the main body came up with the advance guard after crossing the Cañada Ancha.
This cañada is the entrance to a gorge descending directly towards the pueblo of Galisteo.
With a view to that end a considerable number of them were collected early last year at Cañada Alamosa.
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