At the time of the conquest Nicolas de
Federman contacts with the Jesuits in 1538, so the missionary José Gumilla
initiated in support of evangelization. The natives of this region in contact
with the Jesuit missionaries who lived in (now semi-nomadic) nomadic tribes in
gathering activities, hunting and fishing. In May 1797 the first census of La
Soledad de Cravo North was performed, as it was called then having 205 men and
women from Chiricoas Guahibos and ethnicities. Later in 1874 the Venezuelan don
Socorro Figueroa enters this region in order to populate this vast plain with
cattle, seized