pampas

Continuing the Quechua weeks, this one isn’t really surprising but I simply didn’t know about it:


pampas (PAM-puhz, PAM-puhs, PAHM-pahs) - n., an extensive, grassy plain in South America south of the Amazon.



Thanks, WikiMedia!

Covers all of east-central Argentina, Uruguay, and southernmost Brazil. Where the gauchos roam. As usual, we got it from Latin American Spanish pampas, the plural of pampa (it's usually plural), from Quechua pampa, flat ground/field.

---L.