Orocue

Orocué lies on the Meta River in the Colombian Llanos, where streams from the Andean foothills cross savannas and seasonal wetlands toward the Orinoco. Sáliba and other Indigenous communities inhabited the wider river country before the establishment of the later town. Jesuit missionaries worked along the Meta and its tributaries during the colonial period, founding settlements among the peoples of the plains. The river remained a major route through the lowlands.