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pu·na

 (po͞o′nə)
n.
A dry alpine grassland of the Andean highlands.
[Quechua.]
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puna

(ˈpuna)
n
1. (Physical Geography) a high cold dry plateau, esp in the Andes
2. (Pathology) another name for mountain sickness
[C17: from American Spanish, from Quechuan]
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The short breathing from the rarefied atmosphere is called by the Chilenos "puna;" and they have most ridiculous notions concerning its origin.
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"In the cool season the girls used to come down and visit me in Hilo, where Dad had two houses, one at the beach, or the three of us used to go down to our place in Puna, and that meant canoes and boats and fishing and swimming.
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El territorio chuquisaqueno y su relacion con los valles y punas de Jujuy en el tardio prehispanico y la temprana colonia.
Por ejemplo, a inicios de la decada de 1970, si bien el acceso a la tierra era un derecho de cada unidad domestica del ayllu Laymi, Olivia Harris calculo que solo el 20% de ellas realizaba doble domicilio, cultivando zonas de puna y valle en simultaneo, especialmente quienes tenian su residencia principal en la zona mas baja (Harris 1976, 1978, 1986).
Doble domicilio: relaciones sociales y complementariedad ecologica en el norte de Potosi (Bolivia) del temprano siglo XVII
Una revision preliminar del periodo correspondiente a los anos previos y posteriores a la Guerra del Pacifico parece indicar que las relaciones sociales y las alianzas de parentesco de estas poblaciones se desenvuelven principalmente dentro del espacio puneno (punas de Jujuy y de Atacama) (Bautismos VII, VIII y IX, 1849-1896).
"Indios" de los Oasis, "Indios" de la Puna. Procesos migratorios y rearticulaciones identitarias en Atacama (Susques, siglos XVIII-XIX)

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