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What is a bajada?

What is a bajada? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. In the southwestern US, a slope, specifically part of a piedmont slope made of rocky detritus.
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Adjacent fans may merge to form a broad sloping surface, known as a bajada, at the foot of a mountain range.
In 1827 the inhabitants of bajada went there in such numbers that the town was half deserted.
The flood of January I was a recurrence of the process that built the Montrose-La Crescenta bajada slope and the Glendale fan.
Ephemeral stream channels are organized hierarchically on the bajada slopes from the mountains to the valley bottoms.
All transects were located on the eastern bajada slope of Mount Summerford.
But the main barrier is the land itself, an expanse of sun-whitened, heat-hazed bajada telescoping the waist-high vegetation to nothing.

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