What is the Savannah Ecosystem ?

Llanos Orientales, is one of the 6 natural regions of Colombia. It is located to the east of the country, limiting to the north and east with Venezuela, to the south with Amazonia and to the west with the Andean region. Determined by the Orinoco river basin, it is an ecosystem that is characterized by being a plain. The region lies between the Arauca, Guaviare, Orinoco and Piedimonte llanero rivers.2 3

It is a region of intense livestock activity where important struggles were staged during the time of Colombian and Venezuelan Independence. Culturally it is inhabited by the llanero, a common individual also to the Venezuelan Plains.4

The Orinoquía coincides with two clearly differentiated regions and is often confused with them. The first is a river basin, that of the Orinoco River. This extends from the Andes to the Amazon rainforests (the same Orinoco river is born in the Venezuelan Amazon rainforest), and includes the Meta, Guaviare and Guaina river basins. The second, the Plains, is a Colombian-Venezuelan natural and cultural region. This is characterized by its extensive intertropical zone savannas and gallery forests; Its inhabitants, the llaneros, have a differentiated culture and history.

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