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World Wildlife Fund - WWF - Worldwildilife.org
South America: Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru This ecoregion is a high elevation montane grassland in the southern high Andes, extending from southern Peru, though Bolivia, into northern Argentina. Open meadows are dotted with an assortment of rock, bunchgrass, herbs, moss, and lichens. This ecoregion is continuous and transitional between the wet puna to the north and west, and the dry puna to the south. The landscape is characteristically mountainous, with snow capped peaks, mountain pastures, high lakes, plateau’s, and valleys. Scientific Code (NT1002) Ecoregion Category Neotropical Size 62,300 square miles Status Vulnerable Habitats Description Location and General Description The Central Andean Puna, despite its characteristic dryness and because it still maintains nearly unaltered blocks of habitat, represents an important area for the conservation of endemic species of both flora and fauna. Located in South America in southwestern Peru and northwestern Bolivia, it occupies an area of 140,960 km2 and lies within the altitudinal range between 3200 and 6600 m. ASL. (Roca R. 1996). Its climate varies from temperate to cold, it is dry with an average temperature between