pampero

noun

1. Someone inhabiting the pampas of South America.
2. A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.

   “All these miseries, however, are not without their remedy; when the sufferings of the natives are at their climax, the mercury will give the sure indication of a coming pampero, as the south-wester is called […]”