Prepuna

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English

Noun

Prepuna (uncountable)

  1. A dry region at high elevations of the Andes, below the Puna.
    • 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:
      Compared to other Bolivian ecoregions, the Prepuna and Puna in the Bolivian highlands are distinguished by low precipitation and low biological diversity.

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Noun

Prepuna f (uncountable)

  1. Prepuna
    • 2000, Ramiro Pablo López, “La prepuna boliviana”, in Ecologiá en Bolivia, volume 34, pages 45–65:
      La Prepuna se extiende por el sur de Bolivia, alcanzando su extremo norte más o menos a los 20° de latitud sur.
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