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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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Up again to a cold puna crossed by another frozen river and dotted with many llamas.
On the high, cold plains, known in the Andes as puna, there are only two seasons: summer every day and winter every night.
Haumea is said to have taken as her husband, puna, a chief of Oahu.
On reaching the puna, our party had made their day's journey, and would have halted.
We also saw guanacos, vicuñas, wild donkeys, nesting Andean Tagua coots, Pato puna ducks with vivid blue bills, and a dozen other bird species, but very little human traffic.
These valles, quebradas and puna are the three inhabited zones of the Andes.

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