As acknowledged by the writer of Hope Taffy, Pampas famous forests.And Rousseau, who proclaimed the famous slogan 'Back to nature', sometimes jokingly paraphrased: "Back in the Pampas!" Tempting exotic landscape paintings paints and other well-known character - a literary and cinematic Bender.In his Pampas, "running buffalo ..." grow baobabs and serious passions boil between pirate and cowboy Creole.So that means - Pampas?What are they unique?
mysterious Pampas Southern Hemisphere
On our planet, there is only one place that combines the flat terrain and subtropical coastal climate, making this large prairie area became attractive for the colonizers of South America.This so-called pampa , bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Andes, covered with herbaceous vegetation.On the map of the Pampas - a real green spot on the territory of modern states - Argentina, Uruguay and a small part of Brazil.
origin and meaning of the Pampas
What does the word Pampas ?Dictionaries provide several different interpretations of its etymology.For example, the pre-revolutionary edition of the "Dictionary of Foreign Words" AN Chudinov elevates this place name in the Peruvian language, in which he refers to the plain.Modern works of linguists and lexicographers are unanimous:
A popular Internet resource "Electronic Pampas" contains fine works of literature for children (of all ages!).What is the pampas in this case?It is a symbol of infinite space for creativity, games, adventure and fantasy!
history of the conquest Pampa
Before the invasion of the Spanish colonizers in the XVI century life in the scenic pampas for millennia flowed peacefully and moderately, in harmony with nature.The local population - Quechua Indians - strenuously fought against the invaders, but in spite of fierce resistance, European values yet become implanted, and the local natives have undergone extermination.What is the pampas for the Indians?Vast expanses of steppe, a unique natural world, fertile land ... In the mythology of the indigenous population of South America Pampas symbolized infinite life and its frailty at the same time, the insignificance of one human being to eternity.
Over the past century, the development of the local flora pampa became quite different, as for the European colonizers these steppes are another source of wealth and future prosperity.The Spaniards brought with them not only the fighting spirit and the tradition of farming and cattle, horses, mustangs, which are in South America has not been until now.Now they also embody the spirit of the Pampas: grazing herds, the edge of the Andes, the grass on the slopes and a wide expanse of flat ... And somewhere, one known to him trail rider galloping Gaucho, a descendant of Spaniards and Indians.Modern Criollo horses - as feral descendants of the legendary Spanish baguales.
Nature and climate pampas
What Pampas, will understand that, as a child who had to play and hide in the tall grass.Only here is the vast limitless expanse covered cereal herbaceous plants (feather grass, bearded fescue).
territory of modern pampas covers about 750 000 sq.km, which is slightly smaller than that of Turkey.But this does not mean that the steppe in the basin of La Plata completely overgrown with grass.Closer to the Brazilian Highlands climate becomes more continental, dry, mixed vegetation begins, resembling a steppe islands of evergreen shrubs and man-made plantations (maple, poplar).
Reserved Area
What Pampas modern inhabitants of South America?A significant part of the land occupied by farmland with crops of cereals and other crops, farms and pastures for cattle (especially in the Argentine side).But it is also concerned about the welfare of the residents of the reserve - because human activity is necessary to deter, or transforming the world around us, it can be in the desert.In remote parts of the pampas, far from roads, along rivers remained untouched islands of untouched nature.
Fauna pampas make up the unique fauna of our planet - pampas deer, rodents, nutria and viskasha, pampasskaya cat Patagonian mara, maned wolf, rhea ostriches, armadillos, scarlet ibises.
Trees do not grow to the pampas, are rarely found in the foothills of the White Mezquita (Calden).
became world famous pampas grass cortaderia.Thanks unpretentiousness and good adaptability to changes in the environment have become a perennial used as an ornamental plant.Bushes cortaderia reach three meters high, they are long-lived - can grow up to 40 years or even longer.
