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

Snows alternated with the wind of the llano, the coldest wind of the world.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

I left the river and ran across the llano; I felt light, like the wind, as my even strides carried me homeward.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

In the mornings, before it was too hot, Ultima and I walked in the hills of the llano, gathering the wild herbs and roots for her medicines.

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 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

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

As regards vegetation America may be called a region of forests and verdure, vast tracts being covered by the grassy prairies, llanos, and pampas where the forests fail.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various