The colonization of the Savannas of San
Juan de Arama, where the territory now known as Vista Hermosa is included,
begins in the conquest, in 1537, with the arrival of Don Nicolas de Federman to
savannah where the town is today San Juan de Arama, lands at that time
"Our Lady of the Forge" is called. In the period between the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, all this savannah is known as "San
Juan de los Llanos". In this area, the Jesuits founded a settlement with
secular clergy and congregation missions center. A mid-nineteenth century,
there were many villages in the savannas of the left bank