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Definition of Paramos
1. paramo [n] - See also: paramo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paramos
Literary usage of Paramos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of Gaspar de Portolá During the California Expedition of 1769-1770 by Gaspar de Portolá, Donald Eugene Smith, Frederick John Teggart (1909)
"El 16. anduvimos dos horas, y paramos en la orilla de un rio con mui poco pasto.
El 17 caminamos dos horas y media parte por cañada entre sierras, ..."
2. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"4. The Regions in Tropical America, i. The South American Cordilleras. Temperate
rain-forest. Elfin-wood. The paramos. ..."
3. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1814)
"... together with such force as to form a body of two feet in diameter, so hard
as to resist the weight of a man. paramos. Some very lofty mountains ..."
4. Aspects of Nature: In Different Lands and Different Climates; with by Alexander von Humboldt (1849)
"In order to descend South-South-East from the mountain knot of Loxa to the hot
Valley of the Amazons, it is first necessary to pass over the paramos of ..."
5. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1826)
"The cold but always humid climate of these heights, called by the natives paramos,
produces shrubs, of Vegetation which the trunks, short and stunted, ..."
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