cienega

Before it was fairly realized that Martinez was dead, two horsemen were rushing across the cienega which lies between the plaza and the mountains, and Billy had shaken the dust of Sonora from his feet, forever.

The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid Garrett, Pat F 1954

The Sierra Bonita ranch is located on a natural cienega of moist land that has been considerably enlarged by artificial means.

Arizona Sketches 1887

The effect of water upon the desert soil is almost magical and even though the rains fail and the earth be parched, on the moist land of the cienega the fields of waving grass and grain are perennially green.

Arizona Sketches 1887

In the morning, with two herders and their collies, he went back to the _cienega_.

Bears I Have Met—and Others Allen Kelly 1885

The grass in the _cienega_ was thick and green, and there was enough seepage of water to furnish drink for the flock.

Bears I Have Met—and Others Allen Kelly 1885

At the upper end, however, behind a thick grove of pines, was a break in one of the side walls leading to an enclosed _cienega_, an emerald gem set deep in the mountain, as though

Bears I Have Met—and Others Allen Kelly 1885

Half a mile from the _cienega_ the dogs stopped before a thicket, bristled their backs and growled impatient remonstrance to the superintendent's efforts to shove them into the brush with his foot.

Bears I Have Met—and Others Allen Kelly 1885

The team also measures water flow where the cienega's main sources of water, the agricultural canals known as the Bypass Drain and the Riito Drain, empty in the cienega.

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To answer that question, the researchers placed instruments that record water quality and water level every 30 minutes at 20 locations all over the cienega.

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The cienega, located in Mexico, is the largest wetland on the Colorado River Delta.

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