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Lomas (other)
Lomas (Spanish for "hills"), also called fog oases and mist oases, are areas of fog-watered vegetation in the coastal desert of Peru and northern Chile. Lomas may also refer to: Places * Las Lomas (other) ;Argentina * Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province * Lomas de Zamora Partido, Buenos Aires Province * Lomas del Mirador, Buenos Aires Province * Tres Lomas, Buenos Aires Province * Tres Lomas Partido, Buenos Aires Province ;Chile * Lomas, fog oases of the desert * Lomas Bay, Chile ;Costa Rica * Lomas de Barbudal Biological Reserve ;Ecuador * Lomas de Sargentillo, Guayas ;Mexico * Lomas Taurinas, Tijuana, Mexico * Lomas Verdes, Mexico * Lomas de Chapultepec, a residential district in Mexico City ;Peru * Lomas. fog oases of the desert * Lomas de Lachay, a national reserve in Lima ;Puerto Rico * Lomas, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, a barrio * Lomas, Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, a barrio * Lomas, Naranjito, Puerto Rico, a barrio ;Spain * Lomas, Palencia, Spain ;United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lomas
Lomas (Spanish for "hills"), also called fog oases and mist oases, are areas of fog-watered vegetation in the coastal desert of Peru and northern Chile. About 100 lomas near the Pacific Ocean are identified between 5°S and 30°S latitude, a north–south distance of about . Lomas range in size from a small vegetated area to more than and their flora includes many endemic species. Apart from river valleys and the lomas the coastal desert is almost without vegetation. Scholars have described individual lomas as "an island of vegetation in a virtual ocean of desert." In a nearly rainless desert, the lomas owe their existence to the moist dense fog and mist which rolls in from the Pacific. The fog is called garúa in Peru and Camanchaca in Chile. Environment According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, the coastal desert of Peru and the Atacama desert of Chile feature a rare desert climate, that is abbreviated "BWn" on climate maps with the n denoting frequent fog. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
