Pampas, vast grassy, treeless, nearly level plains in South America, in the Argentine State; they stretch from the lower Paraná to the S. of Buenos Ayres; afford rich pasture for large herds of wild horses and cattle, and are now in certain parts being brought under tillage.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Pamirs, The * Pampeluna