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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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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.

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