El Casanare Department is located in the east of the country Orinoquía region. It has an area of 44.640 km2 which represents 3.91% of the national territory. The department of Casanare It is divided into 19 municipalities, 11 townships, 106 police inspections, as well as numerous hamlets and populated areas.
Casanare's economy is based mainly on livestock and agricultural production and oil exploitation. Beef farming is the main economic activity of the population both in terms of jobs and income. Oil is projected as the activity with the highest income generation. The Cusiana and Cupiagua fields are the largest in the country, their reserves have been estimated between 2.000 and 2.200 million barrels.
It offers countless tourist attractions from a natural, cultural and scientific point of view. In the entire region of the plains and particularly in Casanare, the song, music, dances, myths and autochthonous legends, constitute the cultural manifestation of the population; the joropo is its music and the coleo its traditional festival, which is celebrated along with activities such as jaripeo, bullfighting and roosters between the months of August to December.
These lands offer the visitor landscapes of singular beauty; to the northwest the moors laden with sources of crystalline waters, and imposing mountains; in the center and east, the plain with its exotic flora and fauna, especially birds. From the cultural point of view, the historical attractions of its old towns that preserve their colonial architecture stand out.