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

We traveled halfway to Las Pasturas and then left the paved road and turned southward on a dirt road of the llano.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

My mother was not a woman of the llano, she was the daughter of a farmer.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

The old people, Ultima said, always helped each other; through good or bad they stuck together, and the friendships that were formed in that desolate llano were bonds for life.

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

The park has been in the works since 2010, when the Colombian government recognized the llanos — long viewed by the public as grassy wastelands — to be a conservation priority.

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

We thus reached our destination,—a farmhouse situated on a slope at the foot of the mountains, with the wide llanos stretching out before it.

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