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A biological community, essentially a grass land, covering extensive high areas in equatorial mountains of the Western Hemisphere. Paramos occur in...


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Figure 1.Alpine and eolian regions of the tropics and subtropics, showing the broad extent of paramo areas. (After H. E. Wright, Jr., and W. H. Osburn, eds., Arctic and Alpine Environments, Indiana University Press, 1968)
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Figure 2.Paramo de Chisaca, Cordillera Oriental, Colombia (altitude approximately 12,950 ft or 3950 m), showing large bunch grasses in foreground.
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Figure 3.Paramo del Ruiz, Cordillera Central, Colombia (altitude approximately 13,000 ft or 4000 m), showing compact cushions of Plantago rigida between grasses.
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