puna in English

noun
1
a high treeless plateau in the Peruvian Andes.
The empty expanses of the puna , as the grasslands are called in the Andes, correspond to the silence in which we walked.

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1. The Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex of the Central Andes

2. In Puna, especially, people hate Albizias as hundred-foot-tall weeds, but on …

3. Altiplano, English High Plateau, also called Puna, region of southeastern Peru and western Bolivia

4. Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex (APVC) The APVC is a barren volcanic plateau located between 21° and 24° S with an average elevation of ~4000 m

5. It is used by both Māori and non-Māori, and is becoming increasingly widespread in the bilingual names of national organisations, such as the National Library of New Zealand / Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa.

6. Presently, the inferred margin of this partially molten zone coincides fairly well with a negative gravimetric anomaly that clusters around the tripoint between Argentina, Bolivia and Chile and with the extent of the Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex.

7. Many of these calderas are part of the Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex, a large volcanic complex covering a surface area of 70,000 square kilometres (27,000 sq mi) with about 30,000 cubic kilometres (7,200 cu mi) of ignimbrites.