Llanos (grassland)

Los Llanos is a region of northern South America divided between Colombia and Venezuela in the Orinoco basin. It is an ecosystem part of the Global 200, priority ecosystems for conservation by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). It has two marked seasons, the rainy season and the dry season, is characterized by its extensive savannas, its climate is intertropical savannah (in the climatic classification of Köppen being humid and hot, except in the high plains with milder climate) , with high temperatures in general. The region to be located in the interior and therefore with minimal maritime influence allows a greater daily thermal amplitude than in coastal areas, the lowest temperatures are recorded in the rainy season, therefore in August tend to be lower temperatures than in January , but the annual thermal amplitude is not significant in general.