Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A violent dry, cold wind which blows down the slopes of the Andes in the more elevated portions of Colombia, South America, from about 7 A. M. to sunset.
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Examples
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These notions are highly interesting to geology and the geography of plants; because, in countries where no height has been measured, we may form an exact idea of the lowest height to which the Cordilleras rise, on looking into the map for the words paramo and nevado.
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Snow often falls on them, but it remains only a few hours; for we must not confound, as geographers often do, the words paramo and puna with that of nevado, in Peruvian ritticapa, a mountain which enters into the limits of perpetual snow.
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Cordilleras rise, on looking into the map for the words paramo and nevado.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Breakfast; you will pass the 4500 meters to the Umantay nevado.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Bear Bridge rail eyeglasses in Tolima's Cavalcades nevado Ecopark the Ecological lookout AND MANY MORE ...
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a few hours; for we must not confound, as geographers often do, the words paramo and puna with that of nevado, in Peruvian ritticapa, a mountain which enters into the limits of perpetual snow.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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