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  • noun Plural form of llano.

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Examples

  • In fact, the llanos are a very floristically heterogeneous ecoregion.

    Llanos 2007

  • The hilly regions are very wild, although none of the mountains are very high, and the woods are magnificent; but a great part of the land consists of vast grassy plains, which are called llanos, or campos, or silvas.

    Martin Rattler 1859

  • But I somehow stumbled on the llanos, which is Spanish for grasslands or plains, and it felt right.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • In the east, the sparsely populated, flat to gently rolling eastern lowlands called llanos cover almost 60 percent of the country's total land area.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • Terrain: Andes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest; central plains (llanos); Guiana Highlands in southeast.

    Venezuela 2009

  • The Orinoco wetlands are flooded grassland occurring in seven distinct patches, which are embedded in a mosaic of mangroves, swamp forest, moist forest, and llanos.

    Orinoco wetlands 2008

  • The western and northern boundaries and are delineated by mangroves and the Atlantic Ocean, while the eastern boundary occurs along a precipitation gradient - bordering xeric scrub and scrublands in the north, llanos and wetlands in the central portions, and moist forests in the south.

    Orinoco Delta swamp forests 2008

  • Terrain: Andes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest; central plains (llanos); Guiana Highlands in southeast

    Venezuela 2008

  • VenezuelaAndes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest; central plains (llanos); Guiana Highlands in southeast

    Terrain 2008

  • Separated physically from the Andes by the Yaracuy depression, and from the forests of the Guyanan floristic province by the extensive plains of the Andes (llanos), these mountains are isolated from one another by much drier surroundings lowlands.

    Cordillera La Costa montane forests 2007

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