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    Meta FlagMeta 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.Meta Map

    The name belongs also to a river that crosses this department.

    Meta SealLos 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.

     

    Municipalities
    1. Acacias
    2. Barranca de Upía
    3. Cabuyaro
    4. Castilla la Nueva
    5. Cubarral
    6. Cumaral
    7. El Calvario
    8. El Castillo
    9. El Dorado
    10. Fuente de Oro
    11. Granada
    12. Guamaral
    13. La Macarena
    14. La Uribe
    15. Lejanías
    16. Mapiripán
    17. Mesetas
    18. Puerto Concordia
    19. Puerto Gaitán
    20. Puerto Lleras
    21. Puerto López
    22. Puerto Rico
    23. Restrepo
    24. San Carlos Guaroa
    25. San Juan de Arama
    26. San Juanito
    27. San Martín
    28. Villavicencio
    29. Vista Hermosa

     


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