A very cold south westerly wind from the Andes that sweeps across the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay. |
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The pampas were where the gauchos, nomadic half-Indian herdsmen, roamed and worked. |
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The other side of the mountains, to the south and east, the pampas stretches all the way to the ocean. |
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A spending rebound is visible from middle-class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires to tourist spots and the agricultural provinces of the pampas. |
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Another species with similar social behavior also occurs on Japanese pampas grass. |
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Behind a clump of flowering sugar cane, waving like pampas grass in the breeze, the land slopes down into coffee. |
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With development has come exotic French broom and pampas grass that may compete with cypress seedlings. |
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Bovine expansion had replaced the previous pampas grass by alfalfa prairies. |
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Some oversize, cartoonish plants, such as banana-leaf cannas and Northern pampas grass, are real kid-pleasers. |
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Up above the croquet lawn, stipas and striped pampas grass sway in the breeze and catch the low autumn light. |
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The native peoples turned their backs on it, preferring the green pampas to the insalubrious air of the marshes. |
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His slides showed examples of phormium, umbellifors, ferns and grasses, such as yuccas, angelica, tree ferns, bamboos and pampas grass. |
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Roads penetrate deeper and deeper into what were once pampas, dense forests and marshland. |
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Upland Sandpipers are long-distance migrants, spending the winter in the pampas of southern South America. |
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The tabloid wave has swept from New Zealand and Australia to the pampas of Argentina, and, of course, the four corners of Europe. |
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The story of Tschiffely, Mancha and Gato, the heroes of the pampas, is the unlikely tale of a man and two horses who the world mocked. |
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He's travelling with his 15-year-old daughter and when she vanishes into the pampas, he goes on a desperate quest to find her. |
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Moreover, after the pampas suffered a severe drought last year, they are now enjoying a bumper harvest. |
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Despite a drought, Argentina's fertile pampas have produced a record grain harvest this year. |
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After a couple of days in Mondevideo we are feeling like going back to the pampas. |
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The place is in the middle of the pampas, only gauchos cross the river and great us. |
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We get the bikes at the airport after this first immersion in the Argentinian culture. We are ready to explore the pampas! |
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I need to cut back my pampas grass and prune my crape myrtles. |
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Cattle would graze Appalachian pastures intensively and be rotated from paddock to paddock, just as grass-fed Argentine cattle graze on the South American pampas. |
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A herd of wild horses galloped across the pampas, tossing their heads in a display of wild exuberance, against a backdrop of snow covered mountains. |
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Soya has become the cash crop for half of Argentina's arable land, more than 11m hectares, most situated on fragile pampas lands on the vast plains. |
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Cattle are everywhere, roaming freely in a coarse variety of pampas grass. |
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Once favoured by the gauchos of the Argentinian pampas, it is fantastically fashionable, and promises to help combat stress by galvanising the nervous and immune systems. |
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With a little planning you can enjoy a view from your window of snow on the plumes of pampas grass or on a garden statue nestled into a green hedge. |
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It's mid-afternoon at an estancia on the edge of the Argentine pampas. |
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Though they had been running wild on the pampas since his departure, Mancha and Gato remembered him and came when they were called. |
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We head toward San Antonio de Areco with our host Laure, for the annual festival of the gauchos, the cattle farmers of the pampas. |
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The CdVNP contains populations of several large mammals, including giant anteater, giant armadillo, maned wolf, spotted jaguar and pampas deer. |
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The vineyards are on the rolling pampas, close to the River Plate, and enjoy balmy weather most of the year. |
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The dry, tussocky crowns of pampas are another favoured site for hibernating hedgehogs. |
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The Aymaran indigenous people of Bolivia have adopted traditional practices to collect water in the mountains and pampas by way of constructing qhuthaƱas. |
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Argentine authorities worried that the strong connections Araucanized tribes had with Chile would allegedly gave Chile certain influence over the pampas. |
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Wild populations of the Americas also include the ocelot, bobcat, lynx, margay, pampas cat, mountain cat, tiger cat, jaguarundi, and Geoffrey's cat. |
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There were stories about pampas grass, tamarisk, Cape ivy, arundo grass, pepperweed, iceplant, and cheat-grass, all involving relationships in the process of disruption. |
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Themed rooms with animal prints or Eighties decor like rag-rolling or stencilling were frowned upon along with pampas grass, a bidet and bedrooms with silk sheets. |
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