All about the chaparral biome, description, global position, climate, and information on specific plants and animals of this biome.

Chaparral Cars was a United States automotive company which built prototype race cars from the 1960s through the early 1980s. Chaparral was founded by Jim Hall, a Texas oil magnate with an impressive combination of skills in engineering and race car driving. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Chaparral's distinctive race cars experienced strong success in both American and European racing circuits.

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noun Southwestern U.S. a dense growth of shrubs or small trees.

Chaparral Boat Company is the top boat manufacturer of ski boats, wakeboard boats, deck boats, powerboats, speed boats, runabouts, cruisers, sport yachts, inboard-outboard ...

Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the U.S. state of California and in the northern portion of Lower California, Mexico. It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire. Similar plant communities are found in the five other Mediterranean climate regions around the world, including the Mediterranean Basin (where it is known as maquis), central Chile (where it is called matorral), South African Cape Region (known there as fynbos), and in Western and ...