Arechuna

San José de Arechuna was a mission settlement on the Arauca River in the western Venezuelan Llanos. Founded in 1774 by Justo de Granada, it later became known as El Viento. The river runs through a plain of grasslands and wetlands where the rainy season brings extensive flooding. Like other eighteenth-century missions in Apure, Arechuna formed part of the expansion of colonial settlements into the Llanos.