ORIGENES DE VILLANEUVA CASANARE

    VILLANUEVA CITY In the Casanare Colombian*s Department A case study of special interest for social anthropologists, sociologists and historians, accounted during the Villanueva’s foundation process, during1960-1970 decades. PREFACE   The agricultural and livestock settlements have been the natural origin of all towns; because of the need to establish commercial, educational and institutional activities, the rural communities projected an urban area to start trade in it and, here after, will integrate labor specialization. Based on this human geography*s reference, it is natural that the  process to found Villanueva had taken place  under original and similar circumstances. In the space of January1961 and October 1962, at least 15 families which were settled up in some farming territories, located on southwestern part of Casanare Colombian*s área; those families established a sequence of meetings by means of transportation on horses, for the purpose of t...