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PLAYA (a Spanish word meaning " shore ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 831 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLAYA (a
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Spanish word meaning "
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shore ")
  , the name applied in
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America to a level plain formed of the deposits of a
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river which has no outlet to the sea or a lake . If at seasons of high
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water a river floods any
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area and temporarily converts it into a lake, which subsequently dries up in hot weather, the tract thus
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left dry is called a playa . The barren Black Rock
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Desert in north-western Nevada, about Too m. in length by 15 in breadth, is typical .

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