Los Llanos

Los Llanos is the vast plains region covering much of central and southwestern Venezuela.

Los Llanos, Venezuela

Regions

Apure

Cojedes

Guárico

Barinas

Portuguesa

Cities

• 1 San Fernando de Apure
• 2 San Carlos
• 3 San Juan de los Morros

Understand

Venezuela's Llanos is sparsely populated, mostly by tough farmers and cowboys living off the region's main activity, extensive cattle-ranching.

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

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. 
• 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). 
• Hato el Frío (180km west of San Fernando), ☏ +58 240 8083662, +58 416 5409420, elfriolosllanos@cantv.net. 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, info@elcedral.com. 
• Hato Piñero, In the central Llanos, southwestern Cojedes, ☏ +58 212 991-8935, +58 212 9910079, hatopinero@branger.com. 
• Hato Araguaquén, in Cunaviche.