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Llano is the Spanish word for plain. It may refer to: Llano, California, an unincorporated community in California, United States; Llano Estacado, a region in northwest Texas and eastern New Mexico; Llano, Texas, a small city in Llano County, Texas; Llano County, Texas; Llano River, a Texas river
The Spanish name Llano Estacado is often interpreted as meaning "Staked Plains", although "stockaded" or "palisaded plains" have also been proposed, [2] [4]: 355 in which case the name would derive from the steep escarpments on the eastern, northern, and western periphery of the plains.
The Llanos (Spanish Los Llanos, "The Plains"; Spanish pronunciation: [los ˈʝanos]) is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America. It is an ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome.
Arizona Either from árida zona, meaning "Arid Zone", or from a Spanish word of Basque origin meaning "The Good Oak" California (from the name of a fictional island country in Las sergas de Esplandián, a popular Spanish chivalric romance by Garci Rodríguez de Mon talvo) Colorado (meaning "red [colored]", "ruddy" or "colored" in masculine form.
Llano (/ ˈ l æ n oʊ / LAN-oh) is a city in Llano County, Texas, United States.As of 2020, the city population was 3,325. [4] It is the county seat of Llano County. [5] Llano has been described as the "deer capital of Texas", with the single highest density of white-tailed deer in the United States.
The Llano served as the chief acculturation point for many Ciboleros, a point where ideas, words, goods, and practices flowed between east and west. The Cibolero also facilitated the survival of whole populations, augmenting the ancient flow of bison meat from plain to valley, gradually supplanting and transforming the many hundreds of former ...
A llanero (Spanish pronunciation:, 'plainsman') is a Venezuelan and Colombian herder. The name is taken from the Llanos grasslands occupying eastern Colombia and western-central Venezuela. During the Spanish American wars of independence, llanero lancers and cavalry served in both armies and provided the bulk of the cavalry during the war. They ...
The Llano River (/ ˈ l æ n oʊ / LAN-oh) is ... The river is also associated with the legend of the Los Almagres Mine. Translated from Spanish, almagre means red ...