villages and places of Casanare, the term menoa or
ore which means water is present, in Achagua and different suffixes that
accompany this word in the plains place names or descriptions mean different
qualities to ore or water. First Settlers The territory where today is
Tauramena settlement came to be called the Province Aachaguas for being
inhabited by indigenous cusianas from this great family; chroniclers and
historians mention them with different words: Ajaguas, axaguas, Jaguas, Xaguas,
palm fronds, whose territorial dominion extended throughout the piedmont plains
regions falconianas from Venezuela to the territory of Casanare The achaguas.
native prairie were larger socio-cultural and economic exchange between serving
the communities of the plain and plateau cundiboyacense muiscas of development.
They are credited with the creation and use of quiripa is, as the first coin
that served to exchange their products. The achaguas knew imagine a picturesque
origin resulted in a clan organization: sons of the logs were called
Aaycuverrenais believed and meant living in the jungle and ate their products,
others devised its origin in rivers so called themselves born Univerrenais
meant and inhabitants on the banks of rivers.
The achaguas had an invisible God:
Cuaguerry "the all-seeing." Like other communities practiced llaneras
burying their dead near their belongings, including customs and rituals. The
foundation founded in 1663 Governor Pedro Ordóñez de Vargas with an unknown
number of Aborigines from the Achaguas Upía Cusiana and rivers. Given the
inhospitable landscape, the population was moved to the banks of the river
Chitamena, which began to be called: Pug-white, and there stand the ruinous war
of independence. The parents exercised their apostolate Candelarios taking
Barro-white as mission station and then decided to move to the Barro-white
shores of the river Chitamena plateau
