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Las Dehesas de Sierra Morena Biosphere Reserve

Las Dehesas de Sierra Morena Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve designated in 2002 in Andalusia, Spain, protects the dehesa agroforestry system across about 424,400 ha in Huelva, Sevilla, and Córdoba provinces.

Las Estrellas

Las Estrellas, until 2016 El Canal de las Estrellas, is the flagship national broadcast channel of TelevisaUnivision in Mexico, launched in 1951 and best known for telenovelas.

LAS file format

The LAS file format is an open binary file format for storing three-dimensional lidar point cloud data, published by ASPRS since 2003 and widely used in remote sensing.

Las Flores

Las Flores is a Huastec archaeological site in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, occupied 1000–1250 AD; of more than 20 mounds only the circular Pyramid of Las Flores survives, excavated by Ekholm and Du Solier in 1941–1942.

Las fuerzas extrañas

Las fuerzas extrañas is a 1906 collection of twelve short stories by the Argentine modernista writer Leopoldo Lugones, a founding work of fantastic narrative in Argentina.

Las Grecas

Las Grecas were a Spanish music duo of Romani sisters Carmela and Tina Muñoz from Madrid, whose 1973 hit "Te estoy amando locamente" topped the Spanish charts.

Las Guanábanas

Las Guanábanas is a Puerto Rican reggaeton duo formed by Georgie and Joelito, who debuted in 1992 on The Noise, recorded with DJ Nelson, and collaborated with Daddy Yankee.

Las Guaracheras

Las Guaracheras is an all-female salsa sextet founded in 2017 in Cali, Colombia, by percussionists Laura Linares and Mónica Castro, playing an updated salsa sound built around the vibraphone.

Las Hermanas Águila

Las Hermanas Águila were a Mexican sister duo of Esperanza and Paz Águila from Guadalajara, billed "el mejor dueto de América" and recording on Discos Peerless.

Las Higueras

Las Higueras: Totonac archaeological zone with site museum in Vega de Alatorre, Veracruz, Mexico, on the Río Colipa; occupied 1500 BC–900 AD and famous for its Late Classic murals, originals now in Xalapa.

Las hijas de la señora García

Las hijas de la señora García (The Daughters of Mrs. García) is a 2024 Mexican telenovela by José Alberto Castro, adapting the Turkish Fazilet Hanım ve Kızları; stars María Sorté, Oka Giner, Ela Velden; aired Las Estrellas from November 2024 and Univision January to May 2025, reaching 10 million U.S. viewers.

Las Huelgas (Burgos)

Las Huelgas is a Cistercian nunnery in Burgos, Spain, founded in 1187 by King Alfonso VIII of Castile and serving as a royal pantheon and coronation church.

Las Hurdes

Las Hurdes: mountainous comarca in northern Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, bordering Salamanca; 470 km², 40 alquerías in five municipalities. Known for Buñuel's 1933 documentary Tierra sin pan, its poverty stigma, and modern tourism revival.

Las Ketchup

Las Ketchup is a Spanish girl group formed in 2001 in Córdoba by producer Manuel "Queco" Ruiz. The group consists of sisters Lucía, Lola, Pilar, and Rocío.

Las Labradas

Las Labradas: pre-Hispanic petroglyph zone on a Pacific beach in San Ignacio, Sinaloa, Mexico, 51 km north of Mazatlán; over 700 carvings on volcanic basalt, dated roughly 1000 BC to 300 AD, a 2012 archaeological-monuments zone on UNESCO's Tentative List.

Las lenguas de diamante

Las lenguas de diamante (Diamond Tongues) is the first poetry collection of the Uruguayan poet Juana de Ibarbourou, published in Buenos Aires in 1919 to immediate success.

Las Limas Monument 1

Las Limas Monument 1, also known as the Señor de Las Limas, is an Olmec greenstone sculpture of a seated man holding a supernatural infant.

Las Loras UNESCO Global Geopark

Las Loras UNESCO Global Geopark is a geopark in northern Castilla y León, Spain, designated by UNESCO in 2017 for its moorland plateaus, karst, and canyons.

Las Médulas (Spain)

Las Médulas, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997 in El Bierzo, León, Spain, is the largest open-pit gold mine of the Roman Empire, worked in the 1st-2nd centuries AD by the hydraulic ruina montium technique described by Pliny the Elder, and damaged by a 2025 wildfire.

Las Meninas

Las Meninas (1656), Velázquez's oil on canvas in Madrid's Prado, shows Infanta Margarita, her meninas, dwarfs, and the painter himself, with Philip IV and his queen reflected in a mirror; famous for its perspective paradoxes and Foucault's analysis.

Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran

Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women No Longer Cry) is Shakira's twelfth studio album, released in March 2024 and centered on her split from Gerard Piqué.

Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour

Shakira's Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour, launched February 11, 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, is the highest-grossing Hispanic tour of all time at $534.4 million, ending with a 13-show Madrid residency at the purpose-built Shakira Stadium.

Las Oscuras Primaveras

Las Oscuras Primaveras (The Obscure Spring) is a 2014 Mexican drama by Ernesto Contreras, written by Carlos Contreras, starring José María Yazpik, Cecilia Suárez, and Irene Azuela as lovers trapped in unfulfilling lives; it premiered at Morelia 2014 and won 2015 Ariel awards for editing and sound.

Las Pailas Geothermal Power Station

Las Pailas Geothermal Power Station (Complejo Geotérmico Las Pailas) is a geothermal power complex on Rincón de la Vieja volcano in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, owned by ICE.

Las Palmas

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, co-capital of the Canary Islands with Santa Cruz de Tenerife, was founded in 1478 by Juan Rejón. Largest Canarian city (381,868 residents in 2025), home of the Puerto de La Luz and heavily dependent on seawater desalination.

Las pelotaris 1926

Las Pelotaris 1926 (Emakume pilotariak 1926) is a 2023 Spanish-Mexican ViX+/SkyShowtime drama by Marc Cistaré about Chelo, Idoia and Itzi, fictionalized raquetistas, the first professional women of Basque pelota.

Las personas del verbo

Las personas del verbo is the 1975 volume in which Spanish poet Jaime Gil de Biedma gathered his complete poetry, collecting his three principal books revised by the author.

Las Pilas

Las Pilas, Jonacatepec, Morelos, Mexico: pre-Hispanic archaeological site, oldest antecedent of Jonacatepec, subject to Olmec Chalcatzingo, Early Classic apogee 200-600 AD, known for water-capture canals and Tlaloc burials.

Las Piñas

Las Piñas, a highly urbanized city in southern Metro Manila, Philippines, cityhood 1997 (RA 8251), 41.54 sq km, known for the bamboo organ, salt beds, flood control challenges, and planned LRT-1 station.

Las Posadas

Las Posadas is a nine-day Catholic novena, December 16 through Christmas Eve, celebrated in Mexico and Central America with processions reenacting Mary and Joseph's search for lodging in Bethlehem.