Forests grow along the eastern border of the puna region southward to the colder Andean zones, covering many slopes in this part of the mountains. |
The chill air of the puna was even more endurable than such company. |
On the high, cold plains, known in the Andes as puna, there are only two seasons: summer every day and winter every night. |
The empty expanses of the puna, as the grasslands are called in the Andes, correspond to the silence in which we walked. |
Haumea is said to have taken as her husband, puna, a chief of Oahu. |
Up again to a cold puna crossed by another frozen river and dotted with many llamas. |