Puña, also known as San Luis de Puña, is a Peruvian town in the Tacabamba District of the Chota Province, located in the center of the Cajamarca Department...
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Look up puna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Puna may refer to: Puña, a town in the Department of Cajamarca of Peru Puna, Potosí, a village in Bolivia...
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The Puna ibis (Plegadis ridgwayi) is a species of bird in the family Threskiornithidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. Its natural...
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Puná Island (Spanish: Isla Puná), is an island just off the coast of southern Ecuador at approximately 80 degrees west longitude and 3 degrees south latitude...
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The Battle of Puná, a peripheral engagement of Francisco Pizarro's conquest of Peru, was fought in April 1531 on the island of Puná (in the Gulf of Guayaquil)...
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155°00′34.88″W / 19.4937806°N 155.0096889°W / 19.4937806; -155.0096889 Puna is one of the 9 districts of Hawaii County on the Island of Hawaiʻi (Big...
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The puna grassland ecoregion, part of the Andean montane grasslands and shrublands biome, is found in the central Andes Mountains of South America. It...
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Puna is a suburb of Surat in the Indian state of Gujarat. The city is located 9 km east of Surat on the Surat-Bardoli highway NH6. Puna comes under the...
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Henry Tuakeu Puna (born 29 July 1949) is a Cook Islands politician. He most recently served as the secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum from...
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The Puna teal (Spatula puna) is a species of dabbling duck in the family Anatidae. It was at one time regarded as a subspecies of the silver teal. The...
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The Puna de Atacama or Atacama Plateau is an arid high plateau, in the Andes of northern Chile (15%) and northwest of Argentina (85%). Geomorphologist...
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the Polynesian narrative of the Tuamotus archipelago in the South Pacific, Puna is the king of Hiti-marama or of Vavaʻu, depending on the story. In one story...
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The puna plover (Anarhynchus alticola) is a species of bird in subfamily Charadriinae of family Charadriidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile...
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Lali Puna is a German, Munich-based electropop band originally from Weilheim in Oberbayern, Germany. Valerie Trebeljahr, the lead writer and singer, comes...
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Puna Bhengra is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. In May 2021, he was elected as a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from...
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The puna thistletail (Asthenes helleri) is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Peru and Bolivia...
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The Puna pipit (Anthus brevirostris) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae native to South America. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of...
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The puna miner (Geositta punensis) is a passerine bird in the subfamily Sclerurinae, the leaftossers and miners, of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It...
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The puna tinamou (Tinamotis pentlandii) also known as Pentland's tinamou, is a member of the most ancient groups of bird families, the tinamous. This species...
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The Central Andean puna is a montane grasslands and shrublands ecoregion in the Andes of southern Peru, Bolivia, and northern Chile and Argentina. The...
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Maunga Puna Pau is a small crater or cinder cone and prehistoric quarry on the outskirts of Hanga Roa in the south west of Easter Island (a Chilean island...
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Puna-Mustat (lit. "Red-Blacks") is a Finnish pesäpallo team from Helsinki. It was founded in 1941. Puna-Mustat is currently playing in the third-tier...
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The puna mouse (Punomys lemminus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to southern Peru, where it is found in puna habitat at...
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Narotam "Tom" Puna (28 October 1929 – 7 June 1996) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in three Test matches in 1966. Puna's family migrated from India...
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Akaitiiti O Te Rangi Puna (born 5 September 1952) is a Cook Islands politician and member of the Cook Islands Parliament. She is a member of the Cook Islands...
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Te Puna is a rural community near Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located on State Highway 2, north of Bethlehem...
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The puna snipe (Gallinago andina) is a bird in tribe Scolopancinai and subfamily Scolopacinae of family Scolopacidae, the sandpipers and relatives. It...
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James's flamingo (redirect from Puna Flamingo)
James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi), also known as the puna flamingo, is a species of flamingo that lives at high altitudes in the Andean plateaus...
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puna tapaculo (Scytalopus simonsi) is a species of bird in the family Rhinocryptidae. It is found in Bolivia and Peru. What is now known as the puna tapaculo...
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Ngereteina Puna OBE (born 1938) is a former Speaker of the Cook Islands Parliament and Cabinet Minister. He is the older brother of Prime Minister Henry Puna. Puna...
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