A colonization village Curiosity · Llanos del Caudillo, La Mancha, Ciudad Real Image of Llanos del Caudillo, not of the place itself. Llanos del Caudillo is one of the nine settlements that the National Colonisation Institute built in the province of Ciudad Real, brought into being thanks to the water of Aquifer 23, discovered in the 1950s. It separated from Manzanares in 1999. Photo: Adam Cli (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Llanos del Caudillo