The word "?Pampa?" in Phytogeography

Abstract

In the present paper, the author first gives an account of the different meanings given to the word pampa by many travelers and scientific men. As it is a word of peruvian origin used by the ?khechuwa? indians, whose tribes living there never reached the plains of Buenos Aires, it is plain that it was brought by the spaniards who also called ?indios pampas? (pampas indians) a group of tribes that inhabited the Buenos Aires plain, of which none was called, like this. The word pampa refers to mountain plains, that physiographically cannot be compared with the Buenos Aires plains; these have a small sea level height; it can only be applied to the region at the west of the bonariense plains.