''Llano'' is the Spanish word for
plain
In geography, a plain, commonly known as flatland, is a flat expanse of land that generally does not change much in elevation, and is primarily treeless. Plains occur as lowlands along valleys or at the base of mountains, as coastal plains, and ...
. It may refer to:
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Llano, California
Llano ( Spanish for "plain") is an unincorporated community located in Los Angeles County, California, United States, near the San Bernardino County line.
History
''Llano'' is a name derived from Spanish meaning "plain".
The ruins of Llano ...
, an unincorporated community in California, United States
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Llano Estacado
The Llano Estacado (), sometimes translated into English as the Staked Plains, is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas. One of the largest mesas or tablelands on the North A ...
, a region in northwest Texas and eastern New Mexico
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Llano, New Mexico
Llano, also known as Llano de San Juan is an unincorporated community located in Taos County, New Mexico, United States. The community is located on New Mexico State Road 73, south of Peñasco. Llano is located on the Las Trampas Land Grant
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, a settlement in the
Las Trampas Land Grant
The Las Trampas Land Grant was awarded in 1751 by the Spanish Empire, colonial government of Spain to twelve Hispano families. The community of Las Trampas, New Mexico was founded the same year. The grant consisted of of land on the western slop ...
.
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Llano, Texas
Llano ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Llano County, Texas, United States. As of 2020, the city population was 3,325. Llano has been described as the "deer capital of Texas", with the single highest density of white-tailed deer in the U ...
, a small city in Llano County, Texas
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Llano County, Texas
Llano County () is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 21,243. Its county seat is Llano, and the county is named for the Llano River.
History
The Tonkawa tribe were ...
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Llano River
The Llano River ( ) is a tributary of the Colorado River, about long, in Texas in the United States. It drains part of the Edwards Plateau in Texas Hill Country northwest of Austin.
Two spring-fed tributaries, the North and South Llano, stret ...
, a Texas river
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Llano Uplift
The Llano Uplift is a geologically ancient, low geologic dome that is about in diameter and located mostly in Llano, Mason, San Saba, Gillespie, and Blanco counties, Texas. It consists of an island-like exposure of Precambrian igneous and ...
, a
geologic dome exposing Precambrian rocks in Central Texas.
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Gonzalo Queipo de Llano
Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra (5 February 1875 – 9 March 1951) was a Spanish Army general. He distinguished himself quickly in his career, fighting in Cuba and Morocco, later becoming outspoken about military and political figures which led ...
, a Spanish army-officer serving during the Spanish Civil War
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Llanos
The Llanos ( Spanish ''Los Llanos'', "The Plains"; ) is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America. It is an ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical grasslands, ...
, a plain in north-western South America
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Llanero
A (, 'plainsman') is a Venezuelan and Colombian herder. The name is taken from the Llanos grasslands occupying eastern Colombia and western-central Venezuela.
During the Spanish American wars of independence, lancers and cavalry served in b ...
'', a person from the Llanos
* The Llano, a magical song from
Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934) is an American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is best known for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xan ...
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Incarnations of Immortality
''Incarnations of Immortality'' is an eight-book fantasy series by Piers Anthony. The books each focus on one of eight supernatural "offices" (Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil, Good, and Night) in a fictional reality and history parallel to ...
'' series
* The codename for the first
AMD Accelerated Processing Unit
AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), formerly known as Fusion, is a series of 64-bit microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), combining a general-purpose AMD64 central processing unit ( CPU) and 3D integrated graphics processing un ...
microprocessor
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Sandra Llano-Mejía
Sandra Isabel Llano-Mejía (born 1951) is a Colombian multimedia artist. She is considered "a pioneer of video art in Latin America". In the 1970s and 1980s, Llano-Mejía's video art was shown throughout Mexico and the United States. She has an in ...
(born 1951), Colombian multimedia artist, video artist
See also
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Llanito
Llanito or Yanito () is a form of Andalusian Spanish heavily laced with words from English and other languages, such as Ligurian; it is spoken in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. It is commonly marked by a great deal of code s ...
'', the local language of Gibraltar.
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Llanite
Llanite is a porphyritic rhyolite with distinctive phenocrysts of blue quartz (a rare quartz color) and perthitic feldspar (light grayish-orangeish). The brown, fine-grained groundmass consists of very small quartz, feldspar, and biotite mica ...
, a variety of
rhyolite
Rhyolite ( ) is the most silica-rich of volcanic rocks. It is generally glassy or fine-grained (aphanitic) in texture (geology), texture, but may be porphyritic, containing larger mineral crystals (phenocrysts) in an otherwise fine-grained matri ...
with phenocrysts of microcline and blue quartz found in Llano County, Texas.
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El Llano (disambiguation) El Llano may refer to:
*El Llano, Aguascalientes
El Llano is a municipality in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. It stands at .
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 18,828, up from 17,115 in 2005.
The municipality had 244 ...
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Llanos (disambiguation)
Llanos is a savanna and grassland region in Colombia and Venezuela.
Llanos, Spanish for 'plains', may also refer to:
Places
*Llanos de Moxos or Beni savanna, a seasonally flooded savanna in Bolivia
*Los Llanos de Aridane, a municipality on the C ...
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