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Llanos Orientales is a Growing Region: a named region that sits above Growing Areas and below the regional complex and gene pool. It groups two growing areas on the eastern plains of Colombia and the piedmont above them: the Ariari, in Meta, and Arauca. The growing areas of the Eastern Cordillera itself belong to Cordillera Oriental (Colombia); those of the Central Cordillera to Cordillera Central (Colombia); and those of the Caribbean north to Northern Colombia.
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Why the region is on the map
- The region groups two growing areas, each of which rests on its own sources; their pages give the evidence in full.
- Several sources name the eastern plains as a growing zone as a whole: the National Police report of January 1973, which lists "the eastern lowlands" among five regions of marijuana cultivation (Britto 2020, ch. 5); Time (29 January 1979), on the Llanos as the emerging zone; and Ernesto Samper Pizano for ANIF (15 March 1979, reprinted by Cervantes Angulo 1980, pp. 250–251), on the shift of planting towards the Llanos Orientales, "especialmente Arauca y Vichada". The page gives each at the scale the source gives it.
The name
Llanos Orientales is the name the 1970s sources use for the zone, in Spanish and in English (Time: "the Llanos plains"). It is also the common name in Colombia for the eastern plains. The English form, Eastern Plains, is given in the infobox.
Growing status
The status is Active. Both areas are Active on their own evidence: eradication in the Ariari from 1999 to 2018 and fields reported there by the press and the police in 2016–2017, and eradication in Arauca from 2013 to 2017. No source says that growing has ended in either.
How the border is drawn
- The border is the two growing areas' own borders, joined, with no land added: the Ariari (the municipalities of Lejanías, Mesetas, El Castillo, Vistahermosa and La Macarena) and Arauca (the municipalities of Arauquita, Puerto Rondón, Saravena and Tame). Where the region and an area share an edge, the line is the area's.
- The two areas are about 320 km apart at their nearest, so the region is drawn in two parts, about 19,200 and 11,700 km², about 30,900 km² in all, the figure in the infobox. The plains between them are left out, because no source read places growing there.
- The infobox point (2.71, −73.71) lies in the Ariari, the larger of the two parts; it is not a field.
- The border is not drawn from accession or news points.
Land left out
- Vichada, named with Arauca in the 1979 text, has small marijuana entries in the Ministry of Defence's eradication dataset (Cumaribo 5.3 hectares, 2010–2020; La Primavera 1 hectare, 2014), and no source read describes growing in a named place there.
- Guaviare is named with Meta among the main growing zones of 2014–2017 in the Ministry of Justice's drug report for 2017 (p. 78), at department scale only; the dataset has two small entries there (El Retorno and San José del Guaviare). Marijuana fields reported in 2024 in Mapiripán, in eastern Meta, are outside the Ariari (see its Talk page).
- Casanare has no marijuana entries in the dataset.
Sources
- All the sources on the page except Time (1979), Cervantes Angulo (1980), Henman (1978; 2019 edition) and the drug report for 2017 are cited on the pages of the two growing areas; the page repeats what they say, at their scale.
- Henman (2019 [1978]), p. 276. His four-way classification of the marijuana of the trade gives mango viche as "Llanos green" and "Cauca green". On p. 280 he rates the lowland marijuanas, among them those of the Llanos, as less interesting than the highland kinds; the page does not repeat the judgement.
- Ministry of Defence, Erradicación (open dataset). The totals for the Ariari and Arauca are those given on their pages.