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Panorama-Colorado wide spot at Spicewood, TXsmall town...big heart
"some history"
The City of Llano is the perfect home-base for historic sight-seeing or shopping. We have a friendly, small-town atmosphere that offers the ideal change of pace from the chaotic bustle of big city life.
The abundance of springs, and diversity of plants and wildlife have attracted humans to this area for some 12,000 years. The first inhabitants survived by hunting the prehistoric mammoth and mastodon. Later, large herds of buffalo, deer and antelope provided sustenance for the American Indians. In fact, even today, the density of deer in the Llano Basin is greater than any other area in the United States.
The Tonkawa Indians were living in the Llano area when the first Europeans arrived in the vicinity in approximately 1535. Spanish explorer, Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca led an expedition to explore the vast, uncharted region. "Llano" in Spanish means plain, a name hardly fitting this spectacular piece of Hill Country. Originally, the river was named by Spanish explorers "Rio do los Chanas" or River of the Chanas -- the Chanas being a band of the Tonkawa Indians. Over the centuries the phonetic similarity between "Chanas" and "Llano" led to confusion and gradually the latter name replaced the original.
"Visiting"
Llano has an abundance of historic sites, parks, lakes, golf courses, museums and shopping centers and even a small opera house. It really is a great place to visit.
