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The Llano Estacado, also known as the Staked Plains or Southern High Plains, is a region located at the southern end of the Great Plains of North America. This vast elevated plain has long been recognized as a distinct physiographic region. The key feature that sets this region apart from its surroundings is its exceptionally flat and featureless surface bounded on three sides by "Caprock" escarpments. The western and northern escarpments separate the plateau from the Pecos and Canadian river valleys. Tributaries of the Red, Brazos and Colorado rivers carve away at the eastern escarpment, which separates the Llano Estacado from the Rolling Plains of Texas and Oklahoma.
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Caprock Escarpment in the valley of the Double Mountain Fork, Garza County, Texas
Native vegetation north of Arch Lake, New Mexico
Shortgrass prairie east of Pep, Texas
Abandoned church in Taiban, New Mexico (October 11, 2020)
Lonely ranch road near Pep, Texas (February 7, 2024)
South Plains, Texas (December 28, 2016)
The Inkwell tank at the Yellow House Ranch, Hockley County, Texas (August 29, 2023)
Ranch gate within Middle Tule Draw, north of Nazareth, Texas (April 14, 2023)
Turquoise waters of Yellow Lake, Hockley County, Texas (September 29, 2022)
Clouds above US Highway 84 (August 25, 2022)
Cattle tank on the Yellow House Ranch, Hockley County, Texas (June 24, 2022)
Abandoned building on the High Plains of Texas
Cemetery near Grassland, Texas
Caliche road, Hockley County, Texas (May 29, 2011)
Cone grain elevator in Hale County
Abandoned school in Close City, Texas
Alamogordo Valley at the northwestern edge of the Llano Estacado
Estacado Cemetery
Canadian escarpment of the Llano Estacado
Notrees, Texas
Large brown cow visiting the dark waters of the Inkwell pond at the Yellow House Ranch, Hockley County, Texas
Pasture at Bridwell Ranch, Crosby County, Texas (September 23, 2014)
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