Llanos Orientales/ the Orinoquía

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The Orinoco Basin is a geographic region of Colombia determined by the Orinoco river basin, and to locate in the eastern part of the country is also known as the Llanos Orientales. It is an ecosystem that is characterized by being a plain. The region lies between the rivers Arauca, Guaviare, Orinoco and Piedmont plains.
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Llanos Orientales/ the Orinoquía
  1. The Orinoco Basin is a geographic region of Colombia determined by the Orinoco river basin, and to locate in the eastern part of the country is also known as Llanos Orientales. It is an ecosystem that is characterized by being a plain. The region lies between the rivers Arauca, Guaviare, Orinoco and Piedmont plains.
    1. It is a region of intense livestock activity where there were major struggles during the era of the Colombian and Venezuelan Independence. Culturally it is inhabited by the lone ranger, individual common also to the Venezuelan Llanos.
    2. Culture
      1. The llanera colombian subculture is the dominant in the region and features well distinguishable. The lone ranger is worker, dedicated to the raising of cattle
        1. Due to the environmental circumstances, the forms of employment its music, its legends, its housing, the lone ranger uses the liquiliqui, a cool costume, light and easy used as male attire in the dance of the joropo, the air musical and dance traditional llanera. Women's clothing consists of a wide skirt of floors that falls to the ankle in the spent seven varas of background fabric clear or red and with flowers, on the seam of each floor leads ojalon (tape).
      2. Gastronomy
        1. One of the most typical dishes of this region is the calf to the llanera or mamona, which it prepares grilling cuts of beef in Chuzos Buried in a circle around a fireplace.
        2. Fairs and festivals
          1. The National Song Festival and International Tournament of Joropo: International Tournament of Joropo has its first version in the year of 1960 year in which the target was erected department. In the framework of the tournament there are activities such as powers of bulls coleados, work from the Llano, gastronomic festival,
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