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The Llanos (Spanish Los Llanos, "The Plains"; Spanish pronunciation: [los ˈʝanos]) is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America. It is an ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome.
Venezuelan coleo: Llanero on horseback chasing cattle at high speed. Coleo is a traditional Venezuelan and Colombian sport, very similar to a rodeo, where a small group of llaneros (cowboys) on horseback pursue cattle at high speeds through a narrow pathway (called a manga de coleo) in order to drop or tumble them.
By the end of the 1970s his father, Héctor José Buitrago Rodríguez (also known as "El Viejo" or "Tripas"), had assembled a group of cattle-raiser families in the municipalities of Monterrey, in the Casanare department, in the region of Colombia's eastern plains, and provided them with weapons so as to fight against extortion and kidnapping by the FARC guerrillas.
Llaneros, painting by Ferdinand Bellermann (1843) A Llanero soldier by Ramón Torres Méndez Saddle and utensils of the region, François Désiré Roulin, 1823.. In the beginning, these riders lived in a semi-nomadic way, being hired by different herds to carry out their tasks; in these journeys there was always a cook, a doctor, and a physician apart from the team of cabresteros and baquianos.
The main destination of Colombia's banana exports is the EU, and the second is the United States. Given the importance of the EU's banana market for Colombia and for Latin America, the outcome of the continuing disputes at the World Trade Organization (WTO) with regard to quotas and tariffs is a major issue to this sector. In November 2007, the ...
The Llanos plains in the outskirts of Puerto Lopez. Puerto Alfonso López (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpweɾto ˈlopes]) is a small town and municipality in the Orinoquía Region (Llanos region) of Meta Department, Colombia. It is known as Puerto López and is a port on the Meta river.
Vichada department. Centro Las Gaviotas is an ecovillage located in the Llanos region of Colombia, in the department of Vichada.It was founded in 1971 by Paolo Lugari, who assembled a group of engineers and scientists in an attempt to create alternative and sustainable modes of living that were specifically adapted to the tropics in developing nations.
The Spanish name Llanero translates as "horse of the plains". [1] The DAD-IS database and the University of Oklahoma Encyclopedia (2007) [1] refer to the breed as Llanero (without diacritical mark), while CAB International, [2] the Delachaux guide [3] and researchers from the teams of E. G. Cothran [4] and J. L Canelón [5] refer to it as "Venezuelan Criollo".