[Sp.:—L. plānum PLAIN, PLANE.] A level treeless plain or steppe in the northern parts of South America.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 873. Peru is divided into three parts, which they call Llanos, Sierras, and Andes…. The Llanos or Plaines on the Sea-coast have ten leagues in bredth.
1868. G. Duff, Pol. Surv., 176. The Llanos of the Orinoco, huge intertropical steppes.
1885. B. Harte, Maruja, ii. Ten leagues of the llano land.
