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. |