Puña
Puña, also known as San Luis de Puña, is a Peruvian town in the Tacabamba District of the Chota Province, located in the center of the Cajamarca Department.
The town is the birthplace of former president Pedro Castillo. Geography
The rural t ...
, a town in the Department of Cajamarca of Peru
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Puna, Potosí
Puna is a village and the capital of the José María Linares Province in the Potosí Department
Potosí (; Aymara: ''Putusi''; qu, P'utuqsi) is a department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km2 with 823,517 inhabitants ...
, a village in Bolivia
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Puna, Hawaii
Puna is one of the 9 districts of Hawaii County on the Island of Hawaii (Big Island; County of Hawaii). It is located on the windward side (east side) of the island and shares borders with South Hilo district in the north and Kaū district ...
, a district in the east-southeast portion of the Island of Hawaii
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Puná Island
Puná Island (Spanish: ''Isla Puná''), is an island just off the coast of southern Ecuador at approximately 80 degrees west longitude and 3 degrees south latitude. It is located at the head of the Gulf of Guayaquil, south of the mouth of the G ...
, an island off the coast of southern Ecuador
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Battle of Puná
The Battle of Puná, a peripheral engagement of Francisco Pizarro's conquest of Peru, was fought in April 1531 on the island of Puná (in the Gulf of Guayaquil) in Ecuador. Pizarro's conquistadors, boasting superior weaponry and tactical skill, ...
, a battle fought between Spanish conquistadors and Puná natives
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Altiplano
The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extensive high plateau on Earth outside Tibet. The plateau is located at the ...
or Puna, a region that covers part of Bolivia, Peru, and the northern end of Argentina and Chile
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Pune
Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...
, or Puna, a city in Maharashtra, India
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Puna, Gujarat
Puna is a suburb of Surat in the Indian state of Gujarat. The city is located 9 km east of Surat on the Surat-Bardoli highway NH6. Puna comes under the Surat Metropolitan Region.
Geography
The city is located at . It has an average elev ...
, a town in Gujarat, India
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Puna, Pakistan
Puna is a village in the Punjab province of Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almo ...
, a village in Punjab, Pakistan
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Puna grassland
The puna grassland ecoregion, of the montane grasslands and shrublands biome, is found in the central Andes Mountains of South America. It is considered one of the eight Natural Regions in Peru,Pulgar Vidal, Javier: Geografía del Perú; Las Ocho ...
, a type of grassland in the central part of the high Andes
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Puna (mythology) {{One source, date=April 2022
In the Polynesian narrative of the Tuamotus archipelago in the South Pacific, Puna is the king of '' Hiti-marama'' or of '' Vavaʻu'', depending on the story.
In one story, Vahieroa weds Matamata-taua, also called '' ...
, a character in Polynesian mythology
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Maihueniopsis
''Maihueniopsis'' (from Greek ''opsis'', "view", referring to its resemblance to the unrelated ''Maihuenia'') is a genus of the cactus family (Cactaceae), containing 18 species.
The former genus ''Puna'' R.Kiesling is now synonym to ''Maihueni ...
'' or ''Puna'', a cactus genus
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Poona (disambiguation) Poona or Pune is a metropolis in Maharashtra, India.
Poona may also refer to:
Places
* Poona, Queensland, a town and locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia
* Poona Dam, in Queensland, Australia
* Poona National Park, in Queensla ...