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    The Venezuelan Llanos (Spanish: Llanos Venezolanos) also simply known as Los Llanos (English: the Plains) in Venezuela, is a natural region that consists...
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    The Llanos (Spanish Los Llanos, "The Plains"; Spanish pronunciation: [los ˈʝanos]) is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes...
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    The Venezuelan War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia de Venezuela, 1810–1823) was one of the Spanish American wars of independence of...
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    comes from the work of Dr. Jesús A. Rivas and his team working in the Venezuelan Llanos. Rivas et al. revised the taxonomy of Eunectes, describing a new species...
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    Llanero (category Society of Venezuela)
    American herder. The name is taken from the Llanos grasslands occupying eastern Colombia and western-central Venezuela. During the Spanish American wars of independence...
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    Otomákoan languages (category Languages of Venezuela)
    Otomaco and Taparita are two long-extinct languages of the Venezuelan Llanos. In addition to Otomaco and Taparita, Loukotka (1968) also lists Maiba (Amaygua)...
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    functioning in the Venezuelan Llanos. The year before, various Venezuelan guerrilla forces managed to permanently establish themselves in the Llanos and captured...
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    Northern green anaconda (category Reptiles of Venezuela)
    specimen, collected by Jesús Rivas in 1993 at Hato El Cedral in the Venezuelan Llanos, is now preserved by the UNELLEZ [es] in the Museo de Ciencias Naturales...
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    The Llanos Region is one of the 10 administrative regions in which Venezuela was divided for its development plans; it comprises the states of Apure (except...
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    Apure River (category Rivers of Venezuela)
    area) and the Venezuelan Andes. From the point where the Uribante joins the Sarare, the Apure flows eastward across the Venezuelan llanos, into the Orinoco...
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    It is a very popular story. The tale of La Llorona is set in the Venezuelan Llanos during the colonial period. La Llorona is said to be the spirit of...
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    in the Venezuelan Llanos and the sugar plantations in Lara, Aragua and Zulia, around Lake Maracaibo. The history of slave revolts in Venezuela, both in...
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  • Otomaco language (category Languages of Venezuela)
    Otomaco is an extinct language of the Venezuelan Llanos. Otomaco is known only from a single wordlist manuscript written by Father Gerónimo José de Luzena...
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    Capybara (category Mammals of Venezuela)
    typically weigh 35 to 66 kg (77 to 146 lb), with an average in the Venezuelan llanos of 48.9 kg (108 lb). Females are slightly heavier than males. The...
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  • Look up llanos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Llanos is a savanna and grassland region in Colombia and Venezuela. Llanos, Spanish for 'plains', may...
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    traditional music of Venezuela, such as salsa and merengue, are common to its Caribbean neighbors. Perhaps the most typical Venezuelan music is joropo, a...
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    the Chocó–Darién moist forests from Honduras and Panama to Colombia Venezuelan Llanos northern Cerrado and Amazon basin in Brazil Tropical Andes in Bolivia...
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  • Elorza is a town in the Apure State in Venezuela. Elorza is on the region of the Venezuelan Llanos and it had 26.800 inhabitants as of 2012. It is the...
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    Green anaconda (category Reptiles of Venezuela)
    "Natural History of the green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) in the Venezuelan llanos". In Henderson, Robert W.; Powell, Robert (eds.). Biology of the Boas...
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    Ruana (section Venezuela)
    noted by Ramón Páez in "Wild Scenes in South America; or life in the Venezuelan llanos" and Captain Vowels in "las sabanas de Barinas" «...They used a thick...
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    Spectacled caiman (category Reptiles of Venezuela)
    as the Rio Apaporis caiman; endemic to Colombia and possibly the Venezuelan Llanos. C. c. chiapasius (Bocourt, 1876); distributed in Mexico, Central...
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    recorded. The Venezuelan Coastal Range and Guiana Highlands have average temperatures from 25 °C (77 °F) to 11 °C (52 °F), while the Llanos average temperature...
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    respond to vocalizations by hatchlings. For spectacled caimans in the Venezuelan llanos, individual mothers are known to leave their young in the same nurseries...
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  • Doña Bárbara (category Venezuelan novels adapted into films)
    masterpiece of Venezuelan literature and a classic in Latin American literature. It establishes a psychological study of the people of the Venezuelan plains:...
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    (Panthera onca) and puma (Puma concolor) in a mosaic landscape in the Venezuelan llanos". Journal of Zoology. 259 (3): 269–279. doi:10.1017/S0952836902003230...
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    Los Llanos Los Llanos, or "the plains", are expansive sedimentary basins characterized by predominantly flat relief. However, the eastern Llanos feature...
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    Yaruro people (category Indigenous peoples in Venezuela)
    a Circum-Caribbean indigenous people, native to the ecoregion of Llanos in Venezuela, located west of the Orinoco River. The Pumé people are divided into...
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    The Silbón (category Venezuelan legends)
    legendary figure in Colombia[citation needed] and Venezuela, associated especially with Los Llanos region, usually described as a lost soul. The legend...
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    distinctive and original art, literature and music. Venezuela's cultural heritage includes the original Venezuelan natives, the Spanish and Africans who arrived...
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  • Joropo is Venezuelan popular music originating in the llanos plains, although a more upbeat and festive gaita version is heard western Venezuela (particularly...
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