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

In the summer the dust devils of the llano are numerous.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

She could not see beauty in the llano and she could not understand the coarse men who lived half their lifetimes on horseback.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

I heard her sigh, and she must have shuddered too when she thought of Ultima living alone in the loneliness of the wide 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

“We want to showcase the great diversity” of llanos culture, Ms. Veydó said.

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

The men Juan had brought with him were accustomed to the life of the llanos, and no time was lost in commencing the work for which they had come.

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