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Ecoregions of Argentina

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pampa
The Pampas (; from Quechua 'plain'), also known as the Pampas Plain, are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul. The vast plains are a natural region, interrupted only by the low Ventana and Tandil hills, near Bahía Blanca and Tandil (Argentina), with a height of and , respectively. This ecoregion has been changed by humans, especially since the release of animals like cattle, pigs, and especially sheep onto the
Gran Chaco
region of Southern America
Patagonian Desert
desert in Argentina and Falkland Islands
Atlantic Forest
biome in South America
Puna grassland
type of grassland in the central part of the high Andes
Valdivian temperate forests
temperate forest ecoregion in Chile and Argentina
Monte Desert
South American desert
Yungas
The Yungas (Aymara yunka; 'warm or temperate Andes or earth', Quechua yunka; 'warm area on the slopes of the Andes') is a bioregion of a narrow band of forest along the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains from Peru and Bolivia, and extends into Northwest Argentina at the slope of the Andes pre-cordillera. It is a transitional zone between the Andean highlands and the eastern forests. Like the surrounding areas, the Yungas belong to the Neotropical realm; the climate is rainy, humid, and warm.
Magellanic subpolar forests
ecoregion of southernmost South America
Araucaria moist forests
coniferous forest ecoregion of the Atlantic Forest Biome in South America
Alto Paraná Atlantic forests
ecoregion in South America
Humid Pampas
grassland in Argentina
Central Andean dry puna
ecoregion in South America
Central Andean puna
Interandean Valles
geographic region
Southern Cone Mesopotamian Savanna
terrestrial ecoregion in Argentina
Paraná flooded savanna
South American ecoregion
Southern Andean Yungas
ecoregion in Argentina and Bolivia
Southern Andean steppe