quebradan.

1787 G. Greive tr. F. J. de Chastellux Trav. N.-Amer. II. 414 As to the extra-ordinary profundity of those vallies or Quebradas, one example will be sufficient.

a1823 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIV. 565/1 Abrupt precipices..occur in every part of the parent chain of the Andes near the equator, and diversify its appearance with the most horrid chasms, or rents, here called Quebradas.

1834 W. S. Ruschenberger Three Years in Pacific 83 In front of the anchorage is a high bluff, or block of land, formed by a ‘quebráda’ running on either side of it, called Monte Alégre.

1927 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 229/2 We will build another house in the quebrada at Palalle Grande.

1949 Américas Sept. 17 The men wore rags and undoubtedly lived in one-room shanties in the quebradas.

2004 J. W. Janusek Identity & Power in Anc. Andes vi. 177 A contemporary route from Tiwanaku leads the traveler to this quebrada, past Misiton, and down a footpath toward..Lukurmata.

1833 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 144/2 Next morning I rode out on my mule, to take my last dip in the Quebrada of the Loseria, which was a rapid in a beautiful little rivulet, distant from Panama about three miles.

1920 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 979 The many quebradas which flow down the mountain ravines.

1973 K. Benton Craig & Jaguar v. 45 The Chasco [river] was fed by the quebradas that brought down meltwater from the high ranges.

2006 M. Aldenderfer in D. J. Kennett & B. Winterhalder Behavioral Ecol. & Transition to Agric. viii. 182/1 Awati projectile points are found..up and down the valley and in some of the smaller quebradas that flow into the Rio Asana.