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Colombian Llanos Foodways

Los Llanos

Regional

Arauca, Casanare, Meta and Vichada: flat, seasonally flooded savanna between the Andes and the Orinoco, shared with Venezuela as one cultural region. CATTLE, and therefore beef cooked over an open fire: TERNERA A LA LLANERA or MAMONA, a young animal quartered and staked on wooden spits around a fire pit for hours, the joints named — osa, tembladora, garza, raya — and eaten with yuca and guacamole. Also HAYACA llanera (the Christmas leaf-wrapped maize parcel that Venezuela calls hallaca), CACHAMA and other river fish, PALO A PIQUE (beans and rice), CARNE ENVELETADA, and topocho plantain. ⚠ THE COLOMBIAN AND VENEZUELAN LLANERO TRADITIONS ARE ONE CULTURE ACROSS A BORDER and two national kitchens; both are recorded and neither is subsumed.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Llaneros community documented

Languages: Spanish

What is recorded

  • The Llanos are recorded as one cultural region spanning Colombia and Venezuela with two national culinary traditions. Colombian ternera a la llanera / mamona and Venezuelan Llanero preparations are recorded as distinct canonical entities within a shared regional foodway. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Venezuelan Cuisine documented

    One Llanero culture across the border, with two national kitchens. Mamona and ternera a la llanera on one side, carne en vara on the other.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Hallaca documented

    The Colombian Llanos hayaca and the Venezuelan hallaca llanera are the same cross-border tradition.

  • related to Venezuelan Llanero Foodways documented

    One Llanero culture across the border and two national kitchens — carne en vara on one side, ternera a la llanera on the other.

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