See Also: playa(medicine)
playa(dictionary)
playa(encyclopedia)
playa(dictionary)
playa (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
HOTEL PLAYA(tourism)
Med Playa Hotels(tourism)
Playa del Carmen(tourism)
Boccaccio Playa, SICAV, S.A.(finance)
Europe Playa Marina(tourism)

playa (sh)




or pan or flat or dry lake

Flat-bottomed depression that is periodically covered by water.

Playas occur in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts in arid and semiarid regions. The water that periodically covers the playa slowly filters into the groundwater system or evaporates into the atmosphere, causing the deposition of salt, sand, and mud along the bottom and around the edges of the depression.