Pampas

Map of South America, with the pampas encompassing a south-eastern area bordering the Atlantic ocean.

Rhea bird

The Pampas are fertile South American lowlands. It is from a Quechua word meaning "plain." It covers more than 750,000 km² (289,577 sq mi). That includes parts of Argentina, Uruguay, and the southernmost Brazilian State. The climate is generally subtropical and semiarid. There is around 31962920 people in this area, mainly because of the inclusion of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area.

Some of the wildlife includes the rhea, the pampas deer, several species of armadillos, the pampas fox, the White-eared opossum, the Elegant Crested Tinamou, and several other species. Frequent wildfires mean that only small plants such as grasses live, and trees are rare.

Pampas Media

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  Taim Ecological Station, in the southernmost of Rio Grande do Sul (near the Atlantic Ocean), Brazil, is an example of flat topography with wetlands.

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  The Ventana mountains ranges are the most important system in the Pampas Plain.

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  Coxilhas (low hills covered by grasslands) in Morro Redondo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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  Pampas Plain in Buenos Aires province, Argentina

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  Mapuche war party led by Calfucurá

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  Gauchos were nomadic horsemen on the grasslands of Argentina and Uruguay

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  Pampas deer taken at a ranch in Rocha Department, Uruguay

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  The Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) endangered species

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  Greater rhea (Rhea americana), the Pantanal, Brazil

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  Southern screamer (Chauna torquata), the Pantanal, Brazil