noun
definition
A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
definition
Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).
Examples of arroyo in a Sentence
Edna Valley and Arroyo Grande are small but wiry wine regions.
On the 28th of October r8 r r, Hill, by a very skilful surprise, captured Arroyo de los Molinos (between Badajoz and Trujillo), almost annihilating a French corps under Gerard; and in December 181r the French were repulsed in their efforts to capture Tarifa near Cadiz.
He grew up in the town of Arroyo Grande, which lies halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
A 2006 graduate of Arroyo Grande High School, Efron lives with his parents, David and Starla Efron, and his younger brother Dylan.
The Mid-Central includes Paso Robles, York Mountain, Edna Valley, and Arroyo Grande.
Its chief tributaries are the Mundo and Arroyo del Jua on the left, and the Caravaca, Quipar and Sangonera on the right.
It is connected with Ponce by railway (1910), and with the port of Arroyo by an excellent road, part of the military road extending to Cayey, and it exports sugar, rum, tobacco, coffee, cattle, fruit and other products of the department, which is very fertile.