Puna may refer to:
Places
Americas
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Puña, 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 of Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country featur ...
, 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 ...
, 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 language, Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechuan languages, Quechua and Aymara language, Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla people, Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extens ...
or Puna, a region that covers part of Bolivia, Peru, and the northern end of Argentina and Chile
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, a plateau in the Andes
Asia
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Pune
Pune ( ; , ISO 15919, ISO: ), previously spelled in English as Poona (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1978), is a city in the state of Maharashtra in the Deccan Plateau, Deccan plateau in Western ...
, or Puna, a city in Maharashtra, India
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Puna, Gujarat
Puna is a suburb of Surat in the Indian States and territories of India, 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 loca ...
, a town in Gujarat, India
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Puna, Pakistan, a village in Punjab, Pakistan
Other uses
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Puna grassland
The puna grassland ecoregion, part of the Andean 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 Per ...
, 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
See also
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Poona (disambiguation)
Poona, Poonah or Pune is a metropolis in Maharashtra, India.
Poona may also refer to:
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Places
* Poona, Queensland, Australia, a town and locality
* Poona Dam, Queensland, Australia
* Poona National Park, Queensland, Australia
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