Llano Estacado - Wikipedia
The Llano Estacado (Spanish: [ˈʝano estaˈkaðo]), sometimes translated into English as the Staked Plains, [2] is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas.
Llano Estacado | Texas, New Mexico, Map, & Facts | Britannica
Llano Estacado, portion of the High Plains of the United States, along the Texas–New Mexico border. It covers an area of about 30,000 square miles (78,000 square km) and is bounded by the Canadian River valley (north), the “break of the plains” (east), the Edwards Plateau (south), and the Mescalero Ridge overlooking the Pecos River (west).
"Llano Estacado" in the U.S. and Around the World - ThoughtCo
2019年6月3日 · The Definition of "Llano Estacado" in the U.S. and Around the World. Llano Estacado literally translated from Spanish-to-English means "Staked Plain," and it is a region at the southern end of the American Great Plains in the southwestern United States.
El Llano Estacado: The Vast, Staked, Palisaded Plain
2020年8月26日 · The most common one is that Llano Estacado means “staked plains” because “estacado” is the past participle of “estacar,” a verb meaning “to stake” or “to stake out.” The belief was that the vast spaces of the mesa were so disorienting that early explorers and settlers needed to leave stakes in the ground to navigate in a ...
Llano Uplift - Wikipedia
The Llano Uplift is a geologically ancient, low geologic dome that is about 90 miles (140 km) 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 metamorphic rocks surrounded by outcrops of Paleozoic and Cretaceous sedimentary strata .
Last of the Colombian Cowboys - TIME
The Llanero, so-called after the Llano, which describes the grasslands occupying western Venezuela and eastern Colombia, became her photographic focus and her spiritual purpose.
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | LLANO ESTACADO
The Llano is a coalescent alluvial plain composed of Tertiary and Pleistocene deposits carried east from the Rocky Mountains by east.west trending streams. This alluvium also forms the massive Ogallala Aquifer that underlies the Llano and is the region's major water source.
In letter to king of Spain, Coronado is first to describe Llano
On this day in 1541, the Spanish explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, in a letter to the king of Spain, became the first man to describe the vast Llano Estacado. The Llano Estacado (Staked Plains), the southern extension of the High Plains of North America, is a high mesa lying south of the Canadian River in northwest Texas and northeast ...
Llano Culture - iResearchNet
Llano culture refers to late Pleistocene North American people on the Llano Estacado, or Southern High Plains, who used distinctive stone projectile points, known as Clovis points, to hunt mammoths.
Llano Estacado - Encyclopedia.com
Llano Estacado (lä´nō ĕstəkä´dō) or Staked Plain, level, semiarid, plateaulike region of the S Great Plains, c.40,000 sq mi (103,600 sq km), E N.Mex. and W Tex., between the Pecos River and the Cap Rock escarpment. The High Plains of the Texas Panhandle (c.4,000 ft/1,220 m high), centered around Amarillo, are usually distinguished from ...