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unusual facts about Puna


Papaya ringspot virus

Production was then moved from Oahu to the Puna region of Hawaii island (the "Big Island") under strict quarantine.


2013 Pacific hurricane season

More than 9,000 residences were without electricity across the state, with most outages concentrated in Kihei, Maui, and Puna.

Andean hairy armadillo

The Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi) is an armadillo present in Bolivia, in the region of the Puna, the departments of Oruro, La Paz, and Cochabamba (Gardner, 1993).

Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

The selection committee consisted of Owe Petersell (Radio Elmar), Toomas Puna (Radio Sky Plus), Erik Morna (Radio 2), Iiris Vesik (musician), Valner Valme (music journalist from Postimees), Siim Nestor (music journalist from Eesti Ekspress), Henry Kõrvits (musician), Olavi Paide (producer from production company RUUT), Koit Raudsepp (Radio 2), Ingrid Kohtla (ETV).

Junin Grebe

The Junín Grebe, Junin Flightless Grebe or Puna Grebe (Podiceps taczanowskii) is a grebe found only on Lake Junin in the highlands of Junin, west-central Peru.

Kīwalaʻō

His half-brother Keōua Kuahuʻula escaped and established himself in Kau and parts of Puna while their uncle Keawemauhili added parts of Hamakua and Puna to his district of Hilo.

Parastrephia lepidophylla

It is a resinous shrub, growing up to 2 m in height, that is typically found in semi-arid central Andean dry, or tola heath, puna habitats, at altitudes of 3500–5000 m above sea level, and in the undergrowth of central Andean Polylepis forest.

Puna grassland

Relatively few birds, such as the Darwin's Rhea, Andean Condor, and certain miners and yellow-finches, are frequently found in the vast expanses of puna grasslands, but numerous birds are associated with the highland lakes and marshes that are found in the puna grasslands, for example the Andean Goose, Andean Flamingo, Andean Avocet, Giant Coot, Puna Teal and Diademed Sandpiper-plover.

Puná Island

Puná Island is an island off the coast of southern Ecuador at approximately 80 degrees west longitude and 3 degrees south latitude.

Red-tailed Comet

Common to frequent in the woodlands and scrub typical of the dry Interandean valles extended up into Polylepis forests, and into the shrubby transition zones to high elevation puna or the moister cloud forests.

W. H. Shipman House

In the early 1930s, Cecil B. DeMille filmed Four Frightened People in the gulch below the house, as well as on the Shipman land in Puna.


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