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Guaidó often says that his message is gaining support in the cerros, but most people I spoke to there seemed too accustomed to crisis to believe in the possibility of transformative change.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019

In late fall, as the deer moved down with each snowstorm, the people hunted the foothills and cerros and the grassy dry lake flats of the big plateau.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

He trotted her west, across the grassy flat toward the cerros, gently rounded hills of dark lava rock which were covered with a thin crust of topsoil and grass, edged with thickets of scrub oak.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

He rode miles across dry lake flats and over rocky cerros until he came to a high fence of heavy-gauge steel mesh with three strands of barbed wire across the top.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

These isolated sugar-loaf-shaped hills called cerros, covered with verdure, are a marked feature of Paraguayan scenery.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various