punas

The Andean steppe limits to the north with the central Andean punas and to the south with the Valdivian temperate forest and the Patagonian steppe, but it also extends as interrupted islands over mountains of these regions forming complex ecotones.

Southern Andean steppe 2007

At the height of a thousand toises, the lofty savannahs of the hills terminate in a zone of shrubs which, by their appearance, their tortuous branches, their stiff leaves, and the magnitude and beauty of their purple flowers, remind us of what is called, in the Cordilleras of the Andes, the vegetation of the paramos and the punas.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Cordilleras, with their snow-capped peaks and their lofty punas or high table-lands, and the narrow strip of arid soil at their western base; the three separate mountain-systems of Venezuela, Guiana, and the

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Andes, the vegetation of the paramos and the punas.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

lagay lang kayo ng konting singer oil at punas nyo sa string up and under..

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Indians of the fields, the llama herdsmen of the _punas_, and the fishermen of the lakes, the common salutation to strangers of a fair skin and blue eyes is '_Tai-tai Viracocha_.'"[

American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868