The Cañada del Oro (Spanish, 'Canyon of Gold'), is a primary watershed channel in Oro Valley, Arizona, U.S.[1] The Cañada del Oro originates in the remote Canyon del Oro in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, fed by rainfall and melted snow from the northern face of Mount Lemmon and flows northward toward the town of Oracle.

Historically, the Cañada del Oro was the focus of significant interest in gold mining, beginning with Spanish explorers in the 17th century.

As early as 1880, the Cañada del Oro was labeled "Gold Cañon Creek" on American maps.

[2] Following the Mexican–American War, American gold-rushers continued the search for the valuable mineral through the 1930s.

[3] The lost mine is the subject of a novel of the same name written by Harold Bell Wright in 1923.