Crossword-Solution: PUNAS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Night came on, and somehow we got off the track crossing one of the Punas--those elevated tablelands, you know, up among the mountains--and when the mule could go no farther we camped, and the next morning I found myself in an almost circular valley, completely walled in by enormous mountains, save for the narrow, crooked gorge through which we had stumbled by the purest accident.

Kurug man gud kaáyu ang ákung kamut mau nga kanúnay lang punas inigbalinsay nákù, My hands are shaky.

The residuals form true mountain chains like the Cordillera Vilcanota and Cordillera Vilcapampa; the depressions due to erosion or deformation or both are either basins like those of Anta and Cuzco or valleys of the canyon type like the Urubamba canyon; the plateaus are broad rolling surfaces, the punas of the Peruvian Andes.

Both countries occupy the "roof of the world" here, the chain and uplands of the Cordillera, although, if such were possible, the _punas_, or steppes, of Bolivia are even more inclement than the corresponding _antiplanicies_ of Peru.

Under the beneficent rule of the Incas means of intercommunication were infinitely better than to-day; then, roads and bridges were kept in constant repair, and in all exposed parts, at intervals along the cold punas and among the mountain gorges, were government _tambos_ with shelter and food for both man and llamas.