llano
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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
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She took my hand, and the silent, magic powers she possessed made beauty from the raw, sun baked llano, the green river valley, and the blue bowl which was the white sun’s home.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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The land of the llano was not good for farming, the good land was along the river.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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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
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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
The llanos region spans more than 200,000 square miles through Colombia and Venezuela.
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
Besides, the lawyer argued, others had done the same thing and gone unpunished on the llanos, "where the law that counts is that of the fastest."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Farther south the llanos of Chuquisaca and Tarija also sustain large herds of cattle on the more elevated districts, and on the well-watered plains of the Chaco.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
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