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What is a paramo?

What is a paramo? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A treeless grassland ecosystem covering extensive high areas of equatorial mountains, especially in South America.
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It was not strange, then, that they should give exaggerated accounts of the cold of the paramo or of the suffering it induces.
Moreover, the municipality of Mira has secured funding to undertake a feasability study for building another reservoir just below the paramo.
The team trekked over 96 km and ascended a total of 3, 000m through rainforest, cloud forest and paramo.
All writers but one agree with paramo on the subject of the establishment of the Inquisition in Portugal.
Yet, perhaps because of its remote location, the paramo is one of the least understood ecosystems in the region.
Between Cotopaxi and Sincholagua are numerous conical hills covering the paramo, reminding one of the mud volcanoes of Jorullo.

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