paramo
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- noun
- /ˈpærəmoʊ/
- As we ascended the Andes, the breathtaking view of the vast paramo landscape made the chilly hike worth it.
Examples
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The herds, grazing in the paramo most of the year, were moved to the maize or potato fields after the harvest, a practice that supplied the land with organic fertilizer.
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The last straw was an increase in rustling, which forced peasants to move their livestock from paramos to populated areas.
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Neither was overpopulation an explanation, because 50 percent of the region was still covered in forest or paramo.
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The village, houses, paramo (moor), and jungle are all places that have social meaning.
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The second reason is that there is definitely an important wealth of biodiversity, in paramo, in flora, in fauna.
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For Codazzi, the paramos were the distinguishing feature of the western mountains.
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Founded on maize lands close to San Pablo Lake, the communities of Pijal Alto and Tocagon had been stretching upward into the potato and paramo zones to accommodate their growing populations.
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In urban galleries and tourist shops, oil paintings depict neat mountain cottages, maidens hand-milking cattle, flowering paramos, and whitewashed colonial towns.
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Once in the Andes, tourists admire or climb the snow-covered peaks, walk the wild paramos, explore the mountain towns, or visit Los Aleros, a re-created Andean village from the 1930s.
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The local farmers relied on the nutrients found in the paramo to support their grazing livestock throughout the year.
Synonyms
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A high flat area in the mountains, especially in the Andes of South America
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Etymology
The word paramo comes from Spanish páramo, which means 'wilderness' or 'barren plain'. It was used for the high, cold, treeless plateaus of the Andes, so paramo today names those cold, misty high grasslands.