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

Accept my aegis, Reyna Ramirez-Are llano, said the voice.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Just before Christmas the snows and winds of the llano locked the land in an icy grip.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

He cursed the weak-willed men of the town who did not understand the freedom a man of the llano must have, and he cursed the war for taking his sons away.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

In December, Colombia declared a new national park in a corner of the llanos that borders the Manacacías River.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

Dr. Walschburger stepped right through them as savanna hawks and caracaras, two common birds of prey on the llanos, swooped excitedly over the smoldering pasture, hunting escaping rodents and reptiles.

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