History of Aguazul

he crown in new lands, founded two cities, towns first erected on the plains of Casanare. The first one that titled Medina de las Torres, founding in the year of 1585, following this same geographical margin moved toward the northeast, where he founded near the river called the Aguamena (now Rio Chiquito), the city of Santiago de las Atalayas , on September 29, 1588, the primary objective being to become a fortress city to riches atalayar Dorado. For designs of the crown, its founder creates a compact, homogeneous, with clear, seeing the need for it, and bring that reality that branded space surrounding amorphous and inert.

The city was located in a province inhabited by natives and Cusiana Achagua source, who from the beginning showed great resistance to this experiment gradually incorporate the process of cultural mixing. The first manifestation of culture clash in city life was the death of its founder and the first destruction of the city.

Dividing the natural region of the Plains into two independent administrative entities, called provinces, being named the highest part of the Llanos with natural division during the Meta River, the province of the Llanos of Casanare, originally called the adjective province of Santiago de los Llanos, concomitant designation for its first capital city of Santiago and begins the new politics of the Plains.