If you ask someone about los Llanos — the plains region shared across Venezuela and Colombia — they might talk to you about cowboys. Or at least their modern-day equivalent: ranchers who ride ...
Venezuela's "joropo" -- a genre blending music, song and fast-paced partner dancing -- was named Tuesday as a UNESCO intangible cultural treasure. It has Indigenous, African and European roots and ...
Los Llanos is a vast plain that stretches across the border of Venezuela and Colombia. And joropo is the music that sets the rhythm of daily life in a land of ranches and cattle herding. It's a ...
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It has Indigenous, African and European roots and originated in plains along the border between Venezuela and Colombia. Joropo is performed to the sound of instruments including a harp, maracas and ...