Meta is a department of Colombia. It is close to the geographic center of the country, at the East of the Andes mountains, in the plain called the Llanos. Its capital is Villavicencio.
The name belongs also to a river that crosses this department.
Los Llanos (meaning the flat plains) is a vast tropical grassland plain situated at 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 here.
The area slopes gradually away from the highland areas that surround it; elevations in the llanos never exceed 200 meters.
Originally, llano is the Spanish word for plain. It became the Spanish-American term for prairie.
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