pampas
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On the pampas they may have been equally valued for their relatively fatty meat.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023
He pointed to a cavernous undercut that likely destabilized the bluff and noted the clusters of pampas grass, a fluffy, straw-colored weed that wedges its roots into the rocky cracks and joints.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023
We stood in the shade on a ranch called Los Ombúes, for the wide canopied trees common to the pampas, and watched three gauchos separate cattle, marking those for slaughter with red paint.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2022
It was brought to Argentina's sprawling plains, or pampas, by British immigrants in the late 1800s, where it found a home alongside the South American country's iconic gaucho cowboys.
From Reuters • Apr. 12, 2022
In the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay, the voyaging Charles Darwin discovered hundreds of square miles strangled by feral artichoke.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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South America - Middle School
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South America - High School
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