paramo

[ par-uh-moh, pahr-uh- ]

/ ˈpær əˌmoʊ, ˈpɑr ə- /

a high, cold plateau of South America.

Origin of paramo

1750–60; < American Spanish; Spanish páramo barren plain; presumably of pre-Latin orig.

All writers but one agree with Paramo on the subject of the establishment of the Inquisition in Portugal.

A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 6 (of 10) |Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Paramo, the name given to an elevated track of desert on the Andes.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia |Edited by Rev. James Wood
But to remain in a paramo during the night, even though thus protected, is often a painful ordeal.

The Young Llanero |W.H.G. Kingston
Paramo (a desert) is the treeless, uninhabited, uncultivated rolling steppes just below the snow-limit.

The Andes and the Amazon |James Orton

“We must be prepared to push rapidly across the Paramo,” observed Padillo.

In New Granada |W.H.G. Kingston

paramo

/ (ˈpærəˌməʊ) /

a high plateau in the Andes between the tree line and the permanent snow line

C18: American Spanish, from Spanish: treeless plain