llano

Flat grassy plain

A llano is a treeless grassy plain, particularly in the southwestern United States and Latin America.

The word is Spanish for "plain" and appears in place names like Llano Estacado, the vast plateau spanning Texas and New Mexico.

Cattle ranches spread across the llano.

grassland

savanna

Tropical grassland, sparse trees

  • steppeTreeless Eurasian grassland
  • pampasSouth American treeless plains
  • veldAfrican open grassland

prairie · rangeland · pasture · campo · downs · grassland · grazing · shortgrass · buffalograss · grama

expanse

vast

Extremely great in size

immense · sweeping · flat · horizon · treeless · unbroken · windswept · stretching · featureless · arid

ranching

cattle

Domesticated bovines kept commercially

livestock · ranch · estancia · hacienda · roundup · branding · corrida · mustang · longhorn · gaucho

terrain

plateau

Flat highland area

lowland · basin · valley · arroyo · canyon · escarpment · badlands · desert · scrubland · chaparral

Opposites
terrain elevation/topography

llanomountain

Tall natural landmass

mountain range · sierra · cordillera · highland · hill

vegetation/land cover

llanoforest

Tree-dense ecosystem

woodland · jungle · rainforest · selva · bosque

landscape enclosure/openness

llanogorge

Deep, narrow valley

canyon · ravine · gulch · hollow · dell

Family

llanos

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Timeless · Concrete · Rated G