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

Oh beautiful bridge, I cross you and leave the town, I cross towards the llano!

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

They signaled the dividing line between the turbulence of the town and its sins and the quiet peace of the hills of the llano.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

I placed the owl in the grave and I put a large stone over it so the coyotes would not dig it out, then I covered the hole with the earth of the llano.

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

But intensive agriculture compromises the water, and the ability to sustain life, in a key transition zone between the llanos and the Amazon.

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

On the map, the guerrillas hold a third of the country, but their third, the rolling, grassy eastern llanos, is thinly populated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their haunt is on the green “everglades” and wide savannas of Florida, on the llanos of the Orinoco, and the plains of the Apure.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid