LLANO
(LAW-noh)
A
large, grassy, and almost treeless plain, especially in Latin
America
Common
clues: Latin
American plain; Nearly treeless plain; Grassy plain; South
American plain; The plain in Spain; Gaucho's turf
Crossword
puzzle frequency:
once a year
Los
Llanos (meaning the flat plains) is a vast tropical grassland
plain situated at the east of the Andes in northwestern South
America (Colombia and Venezuela). Its main river is the Orinoco.
Despite
poor climate, during the colonial era, llaneros (similar to the
gauchos of the pampas) herded millions of heads of cattle here.
The
area slopes gradually away from the highland areas that surround
it; elevations in the llanos never exceed 200 meters.
Originally,
llano is the Spanish word for plain. It became the
Spanish-American term for prairie.
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LLANO
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19 Tu+ >1 08 Grassy plain CAMPO
10
Tu- >1 01 South American plain CAMPO
09
Argentine plain PAMPA
5
Tu+ >1 07 Grassy expanse
5
Tu+ >1 09 Southwestern plain
4
We >1 99 Treeless plain
3
We >1 06 The plain in Spain
00
Argentine grassland PAMPA
2
Th >1 05 Caballero's locale
2
Th Rea 01 Gaucho's plain
2
Th >1 03 Gaucho's turf
2
Tu >1 09 Grassy plain of South America
2
Th- >1 05 Latin American plain
00
South American grassy plain
2
We- >1 01 Southwestern grassy plain
2
Tu >1 02 Venezuelan plain
1
Th NYT 96 Cattle-grazing area
1
Th NYT 93 Central Tex. town
1
Th WSJ 00 Colombian plain
1
Th LAT 00 Expanse of the southwest
1
Tu LAT 04 Gaucho's grassy plain
02
Grassy plain of Latin America
1
We CSy 09 Grassy plain of Spanish America
1
Th LAT 99 Grassy plain of the SW
1
Th WaP 08 Grassy tract
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