Los Llanos (Venezuela)
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South America : Venezuela : Los Llanos
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Los Llanos is the vast plains region covering much of central and southwestern Venezuela.
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[edit] Understand
Venezuela's Llanos is sparsely populated, mostly by tough farmers and cowboys living off the region's main activity, extensive cattle-ranching.
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- Amazing wildlife including anacondas, the ubiquitous capybaras and caimans, hundreds of bird species, and the much rarer jaguars and anteaters.
- Stunning flat landscapes.
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- Go on a plains safari from at one of the ranches in the region.
- Dance to joropo - the traditional Llanos music.
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- Chiguire, or capybara, meat.
- Venezuela's best beef
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[edit] Mid-range
- Hato La Fe, At km 51 of the Calabozo-San Fernando de Apure national highway, right at the entrance to the town of Corozopando, Guarico state, ☎ +58 (414) 3254188, +58 (414) 468874 (info@posadahatolafe.com), [1]. edit
- Posada Doña Bárbara, On the San Silvestre-San Rafael de Canaguá road in Barinas state, 60 minutes from the state capital., ☎ Reservations: 0251 269-2304, 260-1200. Posada: 0273 552-3208, [2]. edit
- Hato el Frío, (180km west of San Fernando), ☎ 0240 8083662, 0416 5409420 (elfriolosllanos@cantv.net), [3]. An excellent ranch and biological station edit
- Hato El Cedral, Near Mantecal, in the lower Llanos of Apure (A 3-hour drive from San Fernando, head towards Mantecal/Elorza. After passing through Mantecal take a left to Elorza and the ranch entrance is 15 mins down on the left), ☎ 0212 7818995 (info@elcedral.com), [4]. edit
- Hato Piñero, In the central Llanos, southwestern Cojedes, ☎ 0212 991-8935, 991-0079 (hatopinero@branger.com), [5]. edit
- Hato Araguaquén, in Cunaviche. edit
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