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Nature Brains EcoRiddle: What's A Paramo?

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Uploaded by on May 16, 2011

What looks like a desert, but is really full of water? A virtual sponge high on the mountainsides, this Andean landscape provides crucial water delivery to big cities below like Bogota.



So what IS this place? It's a paramo. 

Find out what the heck a paramo is with Nature Conservancy biologist Tomas Walschburger in Chingaza National Park.

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  • Very good visuals Julia. Was very interesting to learn about paramo's. Guess global warming plays an integral role in the change of the new "inhabitants"

  • Very good visuals Julia. Was very interesting to learn about paramo's. Guess global plays an integral role in the change of the new "inhabitants"

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