pampas

pl. [Peruv. pampa = a plain.] Phys. Geog.: Properly treele pasture land covered with gra , but used more comprehensively for the whole table-land of South America, from the boundary of Brazil, where the regular seasons of the tropics cease, acro the states of La Plata and Patagonia nearly to Cape Horn. It may bo divided into three botanical zones: the Interior Northwestern Chanar-steppe, the True Pampas, and the southern plains of Patagonia. ( Thomé .)