Tauramena

Tauramena lies in the eastern Andean foothills of Casanare, where rivers descend toward the Llanos. Achagua communities inhabited the wider Cusiana River country before Spanish expansion. In the seventeenth century colonial officials and missionaries brought Indigenous people into settlements in the region. Jesuit missions in Casanare developed estates, workshops and river ports before the order was expelled from Spanish territories in 1767.