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What is a puna?

What is a puna? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An alpine biological community in the central portion of the Andes in which short, coarse grass supports a Native American population.
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Soil types in Argentina range from the light-coloured saline formations of the high puna in the Northwest to the dark, humus-rich type found in the Pampas.
There must be something worth looking at in this huge expanse of dry puna that stretched away from us to some distant humps.
Up again to a cold puna crossed by another frozen river and dotted with many llamas.
The empty expanses of the puna, as the grasslands are called in the Andes, correspond to the silence in which we walked.
By the end of our third day, Yábar's sharp eye and experience had turned up an impressive list of species, including local marvels like the Andean duck, the puna tapaculo, the shining sunbeam and the versicolored barbet.
Haumea is said to have taken as her husband, puna, a chief of Oahu.

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