quebrada

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/keˈbɹɑːdə/

noun

A ravine or valley in Latin America.

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Meanings

nounquebrada (plural quebradas)

plural quebradas · alternative quebrado

  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, Christine Greenway, Medical Pluralism in the Andes, page 209

Origin

  1. Spanishquebrada
  2. Spanishquebrada
  3. Englishquebrada

Borrowed from Spanish quebrada.

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APA

quebrada. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quebrada

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“quebrada.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quebrada. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quebrada,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quebrada.

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