Los Llanos

Apure / Barinas / Guárico · Venezuela

Los Llanos, Venezuela
Photo: Haroldarmitage, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
December to April, when wildlife concentrates at shrinking waterholes
Budget
$$
Accessibility
limited
Coordinates
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An immense tropical grassland flooding seasonally along the Orinoco's tributaries, worked by hato cattle ranches and llanero cowboys. Wildlife safaris here rival anywhere in South America: capybaras in the thousands, anacondas, caimans, giant anteaters, and stunning densities of waterbirds.

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