The eastern part of the Llanos through which we passed, between Angostura and Nueva Barcelona, presents the same wild aspect as the western part, through which we had passed from the valleys of Aragua to San Fernando de Apure.
This conclusion is not deduced from the observations I made at the southern declivity of the littoral Cordillera, between the Morros of San Juan, Parapara and the Llanos of Calabozo.
If the deserts of Africa and of the Llanos or savannahs of the New Continent filled a still greater space than they actually occupy, nature would be deprived of many of the beautiful products peculiar to the torrid zone.
This surface of the Pampas orLlanos of Manse, Tucuman, Buenos Ayres and eastern Patagonia is consequently four times greater than the surface of the whole of France.
Reckoning only that part of the Llanos which is bounded by the Rio Apure on the south, and by the Sierra Nevada de Merida and the Parima de las Rosas on the west.
The intermediate Llanos preserve, together with pastoral life, somewhat of a rude and wild character which separates and keeps them remote from the civilization of countries anciently cultivated.
The secondary rocks of the Llanos of Cumana, Barcelona and Caracas occupy a space of more than 5000 square leagues.
On entering the Llanos of Nueva Barcelona, we met with a Frenchman, at whose house we passed the first night, and who received us with the kindest hospitality.
The great green or brown plain of the Llanos is often beautified by small golden, white and pink flowers, and sedges and irises make up much of the small vegetation.
After two days' journeying which offered no incident worthy of mention, our adventurers reached the beginning of the llanos of the templada region, situated on the other watershed of the Cordilleras, which they had just crossed.
The tussock, in thick clumps, is also seen growing in various directions; indeed, altogether, the Campo is far more completely clothed than either the Llanosor Pampas.
The alcornoque, a beautiful tree, scarcely inferior to it, here raises its graceful head above the rest, affording the cattle a permanent shade during the dry season; while in the Llanos it is used in the construction of houses and fences.
This barren region, which occupies the most northern part of South America, is called the Llanos Altos.
Sterile as the Llanos appear during the dry season, numerous cattle-farms exist, scattered widely over large portions.
After passing through a thickly-wooded region bordering the banks of the river, we emerged on an open country, the celebrated llanos of Venezuela, which extended far away beyond human ken.
The Llanos or steppes of the Lower Orinoco and of the Meta, like the deserts of Africa, bear different names in different parts.
These last are really steppes, and, during several ages, only small portions of them have yielded to cultivation; but the plains of the west and north of Europe present only a feeble image of the immense llanos of South America.
The tigers of the Upper Orinoco are far less bountifully supplied with prey than those of the Pampas of Buenos Ayres and the Llanos of Caracas, which are covered with herds of cattle.
The intermediate plains, however, covered with forests, are still five times higher than the Pampas of Buenos Ayres, and the grass-covered Llanos of Caracas and the Meta.
The chain of mountains, bordering the lake of Tacarigua towards the south, forms in some sort the northern shore of the great basin of the Llanos or savannahs of Caracas.
The indolence of the inhabitants of the Llanos is such that they do not dig wells, though they know that almost everywhere, at ten feet deep, fine springs are found in a stratum of conglomerate, or red sandstone.
I doubt the secondary formations of the Llanos being continued southward as far as the valley of Caura.
They appear linked to the mornes of St. Sebastian, and to La Galera which bounds the Llanos like a rocky wall.
The Llanos of Cumana and New Andalusia include those of Maturin and Terecen, of Amana, Guanipa, Jonoro, and Cari.
The drought and heat of the Llanos act like cold upon animals and plants.
This western part of the Llanos is the hottest, because it receives air that has already crossed the rest of the barren steppe.
They are thus known as llanos altos, or upper plains, andllanos bajos, or lower plains.
He spent more than four years in the llanos and Cordilleras and, before he could return to his starting point, he died at the hands of an assassin.
Most people coming up from the llanos consider it necessary.
In driving cattle from the llanos to Bogotá several weeks are deemed necessary, as otherwise many of them would expire on the road.
Some of the cattle we saw reminded us of the fat, sleek animals we had seen on the llanos watered by the Rio Negro and the Humea.
A sudden change from the lowlands to Andean heights, and from the heat of the llanos to the frigid blasts of the paramos, is something of which the native has an instinctive dread.
What a relief it was to get once more into the open--into the broad llanos of Colombia--where we could have an unimpeded view for miles in every direction.
The ocean-loving cocoa gave place to the moriche, and this was in turn succeeded by the corneto of the llanos and the wax palm of the Sierras.
The llanos in places are quite level, and intersected by numerous caños and streams.
Those that we had in crossing the llanos would never have answered our purpose.
If at such a time two opposing currents of air, whose conflict produces a rotatory motion, come in contact with the surface of the earth, the Llanos assume a strange and singular aspect.
Thus, born in the Llanos like his father, a descendant of the first Spanish settlers, he has no idea of any other country than his southern pastures, of any other career than his dreamy pastoral life.
Their character is not less grand or original than that of the Llanoswhich precede them.
In the wet season, from April to the end of October, the tropical rains pour down in torrents, and hundreds of square miles of the Llanos are inundated by the overflow of the rivers.
However, since the discovery of America, certain portions of the Llanos have become habitable.
The Pampas of Pernambuco and Buenos Ayres have three times the superficial area of the Llanos of Venezuela.
The inhabitants of theLlanos possess characteristics as marked as those of their plains.
The Cervus Mexicanus wanders in numerous troops in the grassy Llanos of the Caraccas.
But the most considerable Pampas and Llanos belong to South America.
The Sierra de los Llanos in La Rioja is another centre for extensive breeding.
Until quite a recent date the cattle reared in the Llanos were destined exclusively for Chile.
But what is peculiar to the mercedes of the Llanos is that they have never been divided amongst the heirs of the first owner.
The economy of the Llanos is less simple than that of the Chaco Salteno.
The pasture grows all the better because the herd is smaller, and the Llanos give the traveller who crosses them an exaggerated impression of their natural wealth.
The Llanos produce a hard wheat; it is not milled, but eaten, like rice, in the grain.
Later these expeditions from Coro penetrated over these mountains, reaching the llanosof the Apure and finally the plains of Casanare lying east of Bogota, which now belong to Colombia.
They also held the great peninsula east of Maracaibo Gulf, and had established outlying settlements in the llanos south of the mountains, besides the two isolated ports--Cumana on the eastern coast and Maracaibo on the western.
Only on the plains of eastern Venezuela, and in the llanos on the Apure and Casanare headwaters, did a few guerrilla bands maintain themselves.
The patriot leader, Campo Elias, overthrew Boves's horsemen near Calabozo on the llanos south of Caracas, killing the prisoners and butchering every man in the town because it had helped the loyalists.
On the other hand, a defensive campaign in the llanos could be kept up indefinitely, and though Morillo had twelve thousand men in the populous mountain provinces north of the plains, he also was without money, arms, and supplies.
It rises in the Sierra Tunuhy, an isolated mountain group in the llanos of Colombia, and enters the Amazon at Manáos, a thousand miles from the sea.
Captain Lope Llanos kisses your Excellency's hands; he is very ill with quartan ague.
Captain Lope de Llanos kisses your Lordship's hands; he is very ill with quartan ague.
The Llanos de Apam, in the neighborhood of the State of Mexico are celebrated for their fertility, and especially renowned for the excellence of the pulque, produced from the maguey or Agave Americana.
In this same vicinity lie the llanos of Barcelona, even closer to the port high tablelands, but somewhat dryer than the llanos of Maturin.
It has maintained traffic for the first time in the llanos during the rainy season, thus furnishing a constant outlet for the wonderful productivity of this region.
In fact, the llanos extend all along the route while to the north stretches the coffee producing section of Venezuela.
On the precipitous mountain slopes of the massive watershed that divides the highland llanos from the sea, macadam has been the principal material used; this has been true also in other mountain districts of the Republic.
The forest plants and trees of Guayana also flourish in the Delta Region and in the forests bordering the Llanos of Maturin, but the vegetation of Northern Venezuela is generally different from that of the South.
The great brown plain of the Llanos is beautified by small golden, white, and pink flowers, while sedges and irises make up much of the small vegetation.
The llanos of Guárico which lie in this region are high table lands but with numerous oases which provide sufficient water for the cattle.
Among other sections of the country well suited for cattle raising are the llanos of Marturin, extremely fertile lands, swept by the trade winds.
But it is difficult to believe, that mortal man could have gazed into the eyes of Isidora de los Llanos without wishing them to look longingly upon him.
It was placed in such a manner that the head pointed southward in the direction of the Apache trail, and was so conspicuous with the black feather that no one coming in from the Llanos could fail to see it.
We will strike southward, and then west across the Llanos to the old mission.
Its Brazilian tributaries are comparatively unimportant, but from Bolivia it receives the Baures and the San Miguel, both rising in the Sierras de Chiquitos and flowing north-west across the llanos to the Guapore.
Farther south the llanos of Chuquisaca and Tarija also sustain large herds of cattle on the more elevated districts, and on the well-watered plains of the Chaco.
Between the Chiquitos sierras and the Andes are the Llanos de Chiquitos, which have a higher general elevation and a more diversified surface.
The gymnotus, or electric eel, is a common denizen of the stagnant pools and sluggish lagoons of the Llanos of Venezuela.
It is recorded that, during the patriot wars in Venezuela, a large army marching through the Llanos was seriously disabled in crossing a bayou infested with these mischievous creatures.
George, however, was anything but inhospitable, as far as his means or ideas went; and on being told that Llanos had come to breakfast, proceeded to investigate his cupboard.
Llanos attacked the stale crust, which Lazarillo de Tomes himself would have despised, and waited with much good-humour and patience for his tea.
Seeing that it was in vain to expect commonplaces from the little absentee, Llanos continued cutting and crumbling a little bread into his plate for a short time, and then departed.
Llanos thought the tea had a strange colour, but not having dread of aqua tofana before his eyes, he thrust his spoon in and tasted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "llanos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
