Los Llanos is the vast plains region covering much of central and southwestern Venezuela.
Los Llanos, Venezuela
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Map of Los Llanos (Venezuela)
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Understand
Venezuela's Llanos is sparsely populated, mostly by tough farmers and cowboys living off the region's main activity, extensive cattle-ranching.
Get in
Get around
See
- Amazing wildlife including anacondas, the ubiquitous capybaras and caimans, hundreds of bird species, and the much rarer jaguars and anteaters. This is also the last stronghold of the Orinoco Crocodile.
- Stunning flat landscapes.
Do
- Go on a plains safari from at one of the ranches in the region.
- Dance to joropo - the traditional Llanos music.
Eat
- Chiguire, or capybara, meat.
- Venezuela's best beef
Sleep
Budget
Mid-range
- [dead link]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, ✉[email protected].
- Posada Doña Bárbara, On the San Silvestre-San Rafael de Canaguá road in Barinas state, 60 minutes from the state capital., ☏ 58 251 269-2304 (Reservations), 58 273 552-3208 (Posada).
- [formerly dead link]Hato el Frío (180km west of San Fernando), ☏ 58 240 8083662, 58 416 5409420, ✉[email protected]. An excellent ranch and biological station
- 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), ☏ 58 212 7818995, ✉[email protected].
- [formerly dead link]Hato Piñero, In the central Llanos, southwestern Cojedes, ☏ 58 212 991-8935, 58 212 9910079, ✉[email protected].
- Hato Araguaquén, in Cunaviche.