Desaguadero River, Lauca River, Río Grande de Lipez,
Conservation
Conservation status
Relatively stable/intact[1]
Protected
15.3%[2]
The Central Andean dry puna (NT1001) is an ecoregion in the montane grasslands and shrublands biome, located in the Andean Altiplano (high plateau) in South America. It is a part of the Puna grassland.[1]
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plateaus, and valleys. It transitions to the CentralAndean wet puna to the north and the CentralAndeandrypuna to the south. Elevations range from 3,200...
provides the main access to the park. The park lies within the CentralAndeandrypuna ecoregion. Several species of animals and plants can be found in...
different lagoons in the reserve. The reserve protects part of the CentralAndeandrypuna (oligothermic) ecoregion. The reserve's major attractions are erupting...
The CentralAndean wet puna is a montane grasslands and shrublands ecoregion in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. This ecoregion occurs above 3,500 metres...
and High Monte to the east. To the north it transitions to the CentralAndeandrypuna and to the south the Patagonian steppe. This ecoregion has a cold...
ecoregion borders it on the south. To the east lies the less arid CentralAndeandryPuna ecoregion. The drier portion of this ecoregion is located south...
their flow as a result of the winter rains and the spring melting of the Andean snows, and they contract considerably in the summer. The combination of...
elevation (montane and alpine) grasslands and shrublands, including the puna and páramo in South America, subalpine heath in New Guinea and East Africa...
mammal predators include the puma (Puma concolor), Andean mountain cat (Leopardus jacobita), culpeo or andean wolf (Pseudalopex culpaeus), and South American...
to the Tumbes–Piura dry forests ecoregion. Including much of eastern Lambayeque Region, this habitat is composed of equatorial dry forests. The total area...
semi-arid Dry Chaco. To the northwest they are bounded by the Bolivian montane dry forests, and by the high-elevation CentralAndeanpuna and High Monte...
areas of the ecoregion are found in contact with the CentralAndeandrypuna, CentralAndean wet puna and Bolivian Yungas. The terrain is rugged, with cliffs...
road system is found in Río Frío area. The park lies within the CentralAndeandrypuna ecoregion. In the park have been recorded 126 flora species, 21...
south-central part of the Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world. Further to the east, it is part of the less arid CentralAndeandrypuna ecoregion...
Fuegians—probably the only instance where a fungus is the bread of a people. CentralAndeandrypuna Chilean Matorral Magellanic subpolar forests Magellanic moorland...
bioregion also includes tropical savanna and tropical dry forest ecoregions.[citation needed] The Central Andes lie between the Gulfs of Guayaquil and Penas...
from October to April. The park lies in the northern end of the Southern Andean steppe. This salt flat spans 8,300 hectares at an elevation of 3,700 meters...
The Andes (/ˈændiːz/ AN-deez), Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range (Spanish: Cordillera de los Andes; Quechua: Anti) are the longest continental mountain...
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