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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.
The Llano Estacado (Spanish: [ˈʝano estaˈkaðo]), sometimes translated into English as the Staked Plains, [2] is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas.
A llanero (Spanish pronunciation:, 'plainsman') is a Venezuelan and Colombian herder. The name is taken from the Llanos grasslands occupying eastern Colombia and western-central Venezuela. During the Spanish American wars of independence, llanero lancers and cavalry served in both armies and provided the bulk of the cavalry during the war. They ...
Llano is the Spanish word for plain.It may refer to: Llano, California, an unincorporated community in California, United States; Llano Estacado, a region in northwest Texas and eastern New Mexico
Llano is a name derived from Spanish meaning "plain". [1]The ruins of Llano del Rio are still extant along Highway 138 east of 165th Street East. The socialist community moved and Llano del Rio was abandoned in 1918, leaving behind the "ghost" of an alternative future for Los Angeles.
Most of the world’s top corporations have simple names. Steve Jobs named Apple while on a fruitarian diet, and found the name "fun, spirited and not intimidating." Plus, it came before Atari in ...
Most of the Llanos de Moxos lies within the departments of El Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, and Santa Cruz. The Llanos de Moxos occupies the southwestern corner of the Amazon basin, and the region is crossed by numerous rivers that drain the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains. The low relief of the savannas, coupled with wet season rains ...
Llanos de Moxos or Beni savanna, a seasonally flooded savanna in Bolivia; Los Llanos de Aridane, a municipality on the Canary Islands; Los Llanos, Chile, a region in southern Chile; Llanos el Salado, a wetland basin in northern Mexico; Los Llanos, Herrera, a corregimiento in Panama; Llanos (Lena), a parish of Lena, Asturias, Spain