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

The move lowered my father in the esteem of his compadres, the other vaqueros of the llano who clung tenaciously to their way of life and freedom.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

I did not want to wrestle with Horse; he was tougher and bigger than I. But my father had often said that a man of the llano does not run from a fight.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

In the summer the dust devils of the llano are numerous.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

Save for a period in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when right-wing paramilitaries invaded the llanos and extorted landowners like him, Mr. Rey’s memories here were good ones.

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

Like this, too, ubiquitous—seen today scouring the sandy plains of the Platte, to-morrow bounding over the broad llanos of Texas, a thousand miles to the southward!

From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid