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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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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.
There must be something worth looking at in this huge expanse of dry puna that stretched away from us to some distant humps.
The empty expanses of the puna, as the grasslands are called in the Andes, correspond to the silence in which we walked.
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.
These valles, quebradas and puna are the three inhabited zones of the Andes.

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