They often occur in conjunction with irrigating ditches and other horticultural works; sometimes they are located on small hillocks in the beds of streams, locations which must be covered with water during the annual floods; sometimes they are found at the bases of promontories bordering on drainage channels and on the banks of arroyas, where they might be washed away at any time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262] Reference

The road passes over arroyas, but is rather level.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions] Reference

Road runs among several arroyas for a few miles, and is then straight and good to camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions] Reference

Road passes over a broken country to a water-hole, 9 miles; grass abundant; thence there is sand in places: crosses several arroyas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions] Reference

Ern, you follow the Archer's Springs trail a mile or so, then swing inside of Gustav's circle and cover all the arroyas and rock heaps you can.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forbidden Trail] Reference

Letter-in-the chaps! '' was what they had said while the train pounded across the desert and slid through arroyas and deep cuts which leveled hills for its passing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jean of the Lazy A] Reference

In all of the graves examined the bodies were found in similar positions and under similar circumstances in both arroyas, several of the skeletons being those of children.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians] Reference

On each side of the town were noticed two small arroyas or water washed ditches, within 30 feet of the walls, and a careful examination of these revealed the objects of our search.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians] Reference

Letter-in-the chaps! "was what they had said while the train pounded across the desert and slid through arroyas and deep cuts which leveled hills for its passing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jean of the Lazy A] Reference

Through rocky arroyas so dark and so deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference