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Meta is a department of Colombia. It is close to the geographic center of the country, to the east of the Andes mountains, in a plain called the Llanos. Its capital is Villavicencio which is also a name of a river that passes through this department.
Los Llanos (meaning the flat plains) is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes. Its main river is the Orinoco. Despite a poor agricultural climate, during the colonial era, llaneros (similar to the gauchos of the pampas) herded millions of heads of cattle.
The area slopes gradually away from the highland areas that surround it; elevations in the llanos never exceed 200 meters.
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