prepuna

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noun

A dry region at high elevations of the Andes, below the Puna.

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prepuna1

noun
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Prepuna.

Prepuna2

nounPrepuna (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA dry region at high elevations of the Andes, below the Puna.

    Compared to other Bolivian ecoregions, the Prepuna and Puna in the Bolivian highlands are distinguished by low precipitation and low biological diversity.

    2015, Robert Perger, Fernando Guerra, “The first longhorned beetle record for the Prepuna in the Bolivian Andes and Potosi Department in Bolivia: a new species of Dirocoremia (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Rhopalophorini)”, in Zootaxa, →DOI

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