important are the Properties of the
Jesuits in the middle of the power structure during the seventeenth to
nineteenth centuries in the world of Christendom, where the Jesuits just
assumed as vast empire as the Spanish, present even in Japan and China. However,
the properties are important in the history of the formerly called "Llanos
Orientales" as the initial form of gestation of the structure of land
tenure based on the large estate and ranching. In a way, the
"formatting" Initial human labor versus savanna in eastern Colombia
will be appointed from the same organization of the Jesuits Estates. In this
way, the present Villanueva is indicated by the incidence of the development of
the whole country and especially by the major social, economic and political
conflicts in the country plunged from the thirties of this century and who
received generic name of "La Violencia". The expansion of the
agricultural frontier of the country, much larger to the extent that the land
issue was not resolved in any period of national history in the Andean region,
yields on metense foothills, Casanare and Arauca masses need dispossessed
peasants mainly Cundinamarca, Boyacá, Tolima, Huila and Santanderes.
It is good to remember that until the year
1982, Villanueva, as township, was a single municipal unit with Sabanalarga,
which had been erected as such in 1966, after having been part of the
municipalities of Campo Hermoso first and San Luis de Gaceno later. Sabanalarga
then had the police inspection category. While Sabanalarga has a well defined
identity, composition especially native people of Boyacá, from San Luis de
Gaceno, San Eduardo, Miraflores, Paez and Campo Hermoso, the municipality of
Villanueva, is part of the much more recent migratory cycles stimulated by the
development of the productive economy. The birth of Villanueva, as village
initially was due to the need to respond to the
