Blooming flowers near Otavalo, Ecuador
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- 1991
- Location
- Otavalo, Ecuador
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2006. Terms of use
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Purple flowers bloom on a hillside above a mountain lake.
Páramo is the geographic term for the area between the uppermost treeline and the year-round snow line. It is found only in high elevations and is usually covered in thick, hardy grasses. The majority of páramo found in the world is in Colombia.
