llano

We wanna go down to the llano to see if they practice homogamy, but dunno how to get there.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021

Besides Fruehaufs highballing twice daily to Calabozo, Arocha had ten white-painted DC-3s flying chilled beef to the capital from distant llano towns like Ciudad Bolivar, on the Orinoco, and San Fernando de Apure.

From Time Magazine Archive

My mother did not like the people of the llano.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

We walked together in the llano and along the river banks to gather herbs and roots for her medicines.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

Around me the moonlight glittered on the pebbles of the llano, and in the night sky a million stars sparkled.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

The sandy, acidic, nutrient-poor soils of the llanos can support these commercial crops only when doused with fertilizers and calcium carbonate.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

In many ways, he said of the llanos, “it’s like old times here.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

But in recent weeks, officials said, he had been pining to come home and listening to music from the his boyhood home in the "llanos" or plains in central Venezuela.

From Reuters ● Feb. 22, 2013

He has also persisted in taunting his pursuers like a computer-age Scarlet Pimpernel: earlier this winter, Lehder agreed to meet reporters from the leading Colombian weekly Semana, on the Guaviare River deep in the llanos.

From Time Magazine Archive

We thus reached our destination,—a farmhouse situated on a slope at the foot of the mountains, with the wide llanos stretching out before it.

From In New Granada Heroes and Patriots by William Henry Giles Kingston