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Benedicto Cuesta among others, is that the range took its name from penitente chapels or shrines in its foothills consecrated to the Redeeming Blood of Christ at a time when in the Spanish empire such chapels were so numerous that Blood of Christ was practically synonymous with chapel .
The foothills of the Sierra Nevada harbor rabbit and partridge, while deeper in the mountains lurk deer.
Flanked with patches of forest leading up into the foothills of the Himalayas, the flat plain stretches right across to the Bay of Bengal 1,600 km (1,000 miles) away, but some areas are kept as nature reserves for the country’s wildlife, notably its tigers, leopards, and elephants.
For these great hunters of the Rocky Mountain foothills and prairies, wild game included grizzly and black bear, antelope, deer, elk, wild sheep, and goats, but the only “real meat” was buffalo.
As its name suggests, this region of the fertile upper basin of the Po river lies in the foothills between the Appenines and the Alps at the French and Swiss borders.