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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.
Other landforms include narrow coastal plains and some lowland river valleys, the most prominent of which is the Andalusian Plain in the southwest. [3] The country can be divided into ten natural regions or subregions: the dominant Meseta Central, the Cantabrian Mountains (Cordillera Cantabrica) and the northwest region, the Ibérico region ...
The Spanish name Llano Estacado is often interpreted as meaning "Staked Plains", although "stockaded" or "palisaded plains" have also been proposed, [2] [4]: 355 in which case the name would derive from the steep escarpments on the eastern, northern, and western periphery of the plains.
The Pampas (from the Quechua: pampa, meaning "plain"), also known as the Pampas Plain, are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than 1,200,000 square kilometres (460,000 sq mi) and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.
The Pannonian Plain is another steppe region in Central Europe, centered in Hungary but also including portions of Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria. Another large steppe area ( prairie ) is located in the central United States , western Canada and the northern part of Mexico .
Outwash plain – Plain formed from glacier sediment transported by meltwater; Paleoplain - A buried erosion plain; a particularly large and flat erosion surface; Pediplain – Extensive plain formed by the coalescence of pediments; Peneplain – Low-relief plain formed by protracted erosion; Plain – Expanse of land that is mostly flat and ...
Plain of Campidano, Italy. A plain or flatland is a flat expanse of land with a layer of grass that generally does not change much in elevation, and is primarily treeless.. Plains occur as lowlands along valleys or at the base of mountains, as coastal plains, and as plateaus or uplands.
The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extensive high plateau on Earth outside Tibet. The plateau is located at the latitude of the widest part of the north–south-trending Andes.