A telenovela is a Latin American version of a soap opera.
yes it is . but now are call series
Yes, in Spain they are called culebrones or long snakes because of the twisted plots.
some times they are called  like that because they are long and never ending story
a true telenovela only tells one self contained story over the course of a year or so.
I guess that is the original idea, but to keep a story running for a year or more, they need a lot of side stories
45 minutes, and rarely more than an hour, except for final episodes. The telenovela combines drama with the 19th-century "feuilleton", and naturally evolved from the Latin American radionovela, according to Blanca de Lizaur.
The medium has been used frequently by authorities in various countries to transmit sociocultural messages by incorporating them into storylines. By the 1970s and 1980s, Mexico became a world pioneer in using telenovelas to shape behavior, particularly successful in introducing the idea of family planning. Mexico and Brazil later, in the
or soap opera (in Spanish telenovela) or certain actor or actress create a story based on them.
Characteristics.
Usually, a webnovela contains one or more of the following traits:
- Its length varies from 40 to 60 chapters
- For the characters, they combine actors, singers and models.
- They use the slang of the country where the story is written.
Cyberseries.
A variation of the webnovela is the "cyberserie". The cyberserie are more like North American series.