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

His fathers before him were vaqueros, and so he expects us to be men of the llano.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

The four directions of the llano met in me, and the white sun shone on my soul.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

“It is good to die on a hill of the llano, beneath the juniper—” were his last words.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

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

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

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 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

The invitation was as irresistible as it was unexpected to the 18 nomadic Cuiba Indians who had been wandering the llanos, the vast prairies that stretch from the Andes to the Orinoco River.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the rarefied atmosphere of the high-lying llanos the eye has the advantage of the ear, sounds being heard only at short distance.

From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Mayne Reid