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pampas

(Encyclopedia)pampas pămˈpəz, Span. pämˈpäs [key], wide, flat, grassy plains of temperate S South America, c.300,000 sq mi (777,000 sq km), particularly in Argentina and extending into Uruguay. Although the r...

Chilikadrotna Wild River

(Encyclopedia)Chilikadrotna Wild River: see Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. ...

Charley Wild River

(Encyclopedia)Charley Wild River: see Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. ...

Alagnak Wild River

(Encyclopedia)Alagnak Wild River: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Alatna Wild River

(Encyclopedia)Alatna Wild River: see Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. ...

Hudson River school

(Encyclopedia)Hudson River school, group of American landscape painters, working from 1825 to 1875. The 19th-century romantic movements of England, Germany, and France were introduced to the United States by such w...

French Broad River

(Encyclopedia)French Broad River, 210 mi (338 km) long, rising in the Blue Ridge Mts., W N.C., and flowing N and then NW to Knoxville, E Tenn., where it joins with the Holston to form the Tennessee River. The Frenc...

Grand River Dam

(Encyclopedia)Grand River Dam: see Pensacola Dam. ...

John Wild River

(Encyclopedia)John Wild River: see Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. ...

Mulchatna Wild River

(Encyclopedia)Mulchatna Wild River: see Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. ...