When the Spanish, located in New Pamplona, looking
for a short and easy path that lead to the sea via the Magdalena River, founded
this long route past peoples and places. Among the former are Ocaña and
Salazar and among the latter the current Villacaro then anonymous. His
cornered situation in these areas unexplored and wild, and the shortage of
residents, for many years prevented progress.
As for the tribes inhabiting these regions,
they found some traces of them in the vicinity of the county seat, in the
desert of Ibanez and the