It has been hypothesized that Charles Darwin might have suffered from Chagas disease as a result of a bite of the so-called great black bug of the Pampas ( vinchuca ) ( see Charles Darwin's illness ).

* Plains viscacha ( Lagostomus maximus ): Resident of the Pampas of Argentina, easily differentiated from other viscachas by black and gray mustache-like facial markings.

New plant material that would have seemed bizarre and alien in earlier gardening found settings: Pampas grass from Argentina and Monkey-puzzle trees.

Besides the global influences mentioned above, early Tango was locally influenced by Payada, the Milonga from Argentine Pampas, and Argentine Candombe.

As for the transition between the old " Tango criollo " ( Milonga from the Pampas, evolved with touches of Afro-Argentine Candombe, and some of Habanera ), and the Tango of the Old Guard, there are the next songs: Ángel Villoldo (" El choclo ", 1903 ) (" El Pimpolla ", 1904 ), (" La Vida del Carretero ", 1905 ) y (" El Negro Alegre ", 1907 ), de Gabino Ezeiza (" El Tango Patagones ", 1905 ), y de Higinio Cazón (" El Taita ", 1905 ).

Cattle were brought to the Pampas from Paraguay in 1580, by the colonial expedition of Juan de Garay.

Gauchos were generally nomadic, and lived in the Pampas, the plain that extends north from Patagonia, bounded on the west by the Andes and extending on the east to Uruguay and the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

One of Carrera's principal allies before his death was the Boroanos tribe that had recently migrated from Araucanía to the Pampas.

Following the signing of the Boundary Treaty with Argentina in 1881, settlers came from the Pampas to the valleys that cross the Andes from east to west.

It became commercially important after the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway linked the town to the city of Buenos Aires in 1885, facilitating the transport of grain from the Pampas.

The constitution made no provision for a national census, however, and because the Argentine population doubled every twenty years from 1870 to 1930 as a result of immigration ( disproportionately benefiting Buenos Aires and the Pampas area provinces ), censuses were conducted generationally, rather than every decade, until 1947.

In Finland Swedish circles / communities, Ostrobothnia is often referred to as " Pampas " and a person from Ostrobothnia is called a " Pampees "

For the 1987 model year, the Pampas got the new front from the Del the Rey and the Ghia version was added to the range with the luxury equipment of the Del Rey Ghia, including electric windows.

There are 42 varieties of shrubs from the Region of Valencia including Cistuses, Mastics, Buddleia, Pampas grass, and Plumbagos.

Although Prof. Tschiffely went through many hardships on the trip, including a bout of malaria, from the Pampas across La Quiaca, from La Paz, to Cuzco, Lima, Trujillo, Quito, Medellin and Cartagena.

Salt lakes ( salinas ), the largest of which is Salinas Grandes receive most runoff from the mountains, except for the eastern part which drains into swamps in the Pampas.

During the winter months cold fronts called Surazos come from the Argentine Pampas and enter the plains and valleys of Santa Cruz, this cold winds combined with the altitude can reach temperatures below freezing.

Among sacred hills in the region of Pampas Alto Ramirez are impressive geoglyphs and other artifacts memorialize diverse settlements from the beginnings of agriculture to the present time.

The term llanero (" plainsman ") became synonymous with the cowhands that took care of the herds, and had some cultural similarities to the compare to the gauchos of the Pampas or the vaqueros of Spanish and Mexican Texas.

Puelche ( Mapudungun: pwelche, " people of the east ") is the name that the Mapuche used to give the ethnic groups who inhabited the lands to the east of the Andes Mountains ( in Argentine territory and some valleys of Chile ) including the northern Tehuelches and Hets, these last ones were also known as the Pampas or Querandíes.

Argentine Gauchos are well known for using it for night orientation in the vast Pampas and Patagonic regions.

* Pamperos are violent windstorms that can strike the Pampas and northeast

The Pampas are bounded by the drier Argentine espinal grasslands, which form a semicircle around the north, east, and south of the Humid Pampas.

Night frosts are lighter and less frequent than in the Pampas region, and most of the time the temperature will only descend to 0 ° C to-2 ° C ( 32F to 28F ) a few nights in the year.

The Sumampa and Ambargasta sierras are the result of the influence of the Pampas at the southwest.

Generally speaking, the southeast of the province around Villa Mercedes is the most suited for agriculture, with a temperate Pampas climate that brings hot summers ( highs of 30 ° C or 86F, lows of 16 ° C or 61F ) with frequent thunderstorms, and extremely dry winters with a large thermal amplitude ( highs are 17 ° C, or 63F, and average lows are 1 ° C, or 34F ).

These averages reflect the fact that there are two distinct weather patterns that alternate in the winter: the northerly, tropical pattern, and the southerly pattern of the Pampas: thus, there are periods of very warm, dry weather ( 25 ° C to 30 ° C, or 77F to 86F ) with warm nights ( 15 ° C, or 59F ) followed by strong southerly winds, often accompanied with drizzle and temperatures that hover around 10 ° C ( 50F ) for days at a time ( creating a surprisingly cold feeling ), followed by dry air and blue skies and cold nights ( 2 ° C to 7 ° C, or 36F to 45F ) and pleasant, cool days between 15 ° C and 20 ° C ( 59F to 68F ).

There are extensive deserts in Ica, such as the Lancha Pampas.

Pampas are the fertile South American lowlands that include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Córdoba, most of Uruguay, and the State of Rio Grande do Sul, in the southernmost end of Brazil covering more than.

They are most commonly found in the mid-latitudes, namely in North America, mostly east of the Rocky Mountains, in South America in Argentina ( Pampas ) and Brazil, and in Asia in Mongolia and the Russian Steppes.

Among the region's rivers are the Mantaro, the Pampas, the Huarpa and the Churcampa.

In his journal for 25 March 1835, while to the east of the Andes near Mendoza, he noted " an attack ( for it deserves no less a name ) of the Benchuca, a species of Reduvius, the great black bug of the Pampas ", a member of the Triatominae which are associated with Chagas ' disease.

Pampas foxes are more omnivorous than most other canids, and have a varied and opportunistic diet.

** Chelonoidis chilensis, Pampas Tortoise, South Argentine Tortoise

South America has two species of rhea, large fast-running birds of the Pampas.

C. quila ) – Andean Pampas Grass ( Andes of Northwestern South America )

* Cortaderia selloana – Pampas Grass ( Southern South America )

In limited studies, the larger culpeo appears to dominate potential competitors, including South American gray foxes, Geoffrey's cats, Pampas cats, grisons and various raptorial birds.

Examples of the South American rangelands include the ; Patagonian Steppe, the Monte, the Pampas, the " Lianos " or " Cerrado ," the " Chaco " and the " Caatinga.

In Australia, shifting sand dunes covered half the continent, whilst the Chaco and Pampas in South America became similarly dry.

He also investigated the possible presence of prehistoric man in the Pampas and made several controversial claims about human origins in South America.