Atanari

Atanari lay near the meeting of the Meta and Orinoco rivers, a junction of waterways in the eastern Llanos. In 1666 the Jesuit Alonso de Neira founded the mission of San Joaquín de Atanari among Indigenous people of the region. Supplies proved difficult to secure amid pressure from Carib groups, and the mission was abandoned in 1669. The rivers continued to connect the grasslands and forests of the Orinoco basin.

The later city of Puerto Carreño lies here.