population subsequently joined the people of Orocué. As the official
date of founding of the town of Orocué have the January 1, 1850, but
ethnohistorical investigations have substantiated type of foundation that
another date would be around the month of August 1858, held with the
participation of Antonio Liccioni and Salivas indigenous Guahibos and achaguas;
the fact that the spoils of Guayabal village was founded Orocué reaffirmed. In
the early nineteenth century Orocué reached a prestigious commercial importance
at the rate of steam transportation by the Meta river, as imports of goods from
Germany, France and Venezuela were made; this situation was the basis for the
creation of a national first office in 1867, and after some renunciations, from
1895-1928, a situation that boost both the development of navigation and trade.
From Orocué calf leather, beef, deer, tiger heron feathers, rice, copaiba
balsam, tonka beans and rubbers, mainly exported to markets in the Netherlands
Antilles, United States, Venezuela, Germany, Spain, France , Britain and
Denmark. Economic development and commercial Orocué flowering, appeared from
1890-1930, a period in which he was regarded both nationally and
internationally important river port. The decline in the marketing and
transport of goods from Orocué, I saw related events such as the War of the
Thousand Days, border conflicts between Colombia and Venezuela which hauled
overruns in transport local products to commercial centers, and the influence
of sustained economic depression in the thirties, which demand for exotic
products decreased
