Crossword clues for paramo
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paramo \Pa"ra*mo\, n.; pl. Paramos. [Sp. p[ae]ramo.] A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.
Wiktionary
n. a treeless grassland ecosystem covering extensive high areas of equatorial mountains, especially in South America
Wikipedia
Páramo can refer to a variety of alpine tundra ecosystems. Some ecologists describe the páramo broadly as "all high, tropical, montane vegetation above the continuous timberline". A more narrow term classifies the páramo according to its regional placement in the northern Andes of South America and adjacent southern Central America. The páramo is the ecosystem of the regions above the continuous forest line, yet below the permanent snowline. It is a " Neotropical high mountain biome with a vegetation composed mainly of giant rosette plants, shrubs and grasses". According to scientists, páramos may be " evolutionary hot spots" and among the fastest evolving regions on Earth.
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Paramo is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. The only species in the genus, P. aculata, occurs in South America.
Category:Satyrini Category:Lepidoptera genera
Páramo (Parmu) is one of thirteen parishes (administrative divisions) in Teverga, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.
It is in size, with a population of 112 ( INE 2006). The postal code is 33111.
Páramo, from the Spanish word for "desolate territory", may refer to:
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Páramo ecosystem
- Costa Rican páramo
- Sumapaz Paramo
- Páramo Leonés, a comarca in León Province, Spain
- Páramo (Teverga), a village in Asturias, Spain
- Páramo de Boedo, a municipality located in Palencia province, Castile-León, Spain
- Páramo del Sil, a municipality located in El Bierzo region, Castile-León, Spain
- O Páramo, a municipality in Galicia, Spain
- Páramo, Santander, a municipality in the Santander department, Colombia
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Pedro Páramo, a novel
- Pedro Páramo (1967 film), Mexican film based on the novel
- Luz en el páramo, a 1953 Venezuelan film
- Páramo Directional Clothing, a British clothing company
Usage examples of "paramo".
Gladly we left this cheerless tambo, though a cold, heavy mist was falling as we rode northward, over the seemingly endless paramo of Sanancajas.
And now we rapidly descended by a steep, narrow path, and over paramo and bog, to a little tambo, where we had the luxury of sleeping on a bed of straw.
They feed on the wild paramo grass, and the beef is not only remarkably cheap, but superior in quality.
Between Cotopaxi and Sincholagua are numerous conical hills covering the paramo, reminding one of the mud volcanoes of Jorullo.
We lunched under the wide-spreading branches of these gnarled and twisted trees, which reminded us of the patriarchal olives in the Garden of Gethsemane, and then, ascending over the monotonous paramo, we stood at the elevation of 15,000 feet on the narrow summit of the Guamani ridge.
Leaving the city, the bus climbed up over the paramo, where a cold drizzle added to the bleakness of great stretches of brown grass.
The cold wind of the Paramo luckily caught the pursuers on the top of the pass.
Thousands of cattle are raised on the paramos, but almost wholly for beef.
Immediately south of Cotopaxi, the Cordillera consists of paramos sown with lakes and morasses, and is rarely covered with snow.
He advanced between Senores Fuentes and Gamacho at the head of his llaneros, who had accomplished the feat of crossing the Paramos of the Higuerota in a snow-storm.