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n. A treeless alpine plateau of the Andes and tropical South America.

n. a treeless grassland ecosystem covering extensive high areas of equatorial mountains, especially in South America

n. A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.

n. A desert plain, bare of trees, at a high elevation, open to the winds, and uncultivated and uninhabited.

n. According to Schimper (“Plant-Geog.” (trans.), p. 743), the paramos, lying in the alpine region of the equatorial Cordilleras in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, are essentially steppes, and are distinguished in character from the punas by their moisture. They begin at the limit of dwarf forest and shrub wood, are either treeless or bear isolated gnarled individuals, and are covered with a vegetation of grass and low herbs, with a peculiar taller growth of composite plants, called frailejon (which see). Compare puna.

"This ecoregion is limited by altitude running from lowlands to 3300 meters (m) or ending when the vegetative structure changes to paramo, which is then considered the Sierra Marta paramo ecoregion."