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When the Spaniards, located in Nueva Pamplona, ​​were looking for an easy and short path that would lead them to the sea via the Magdalena River, they founded towns and outposts along this long route. Among the former are Ocaña and Salazar and among the latter the current Villacaro, then anonymous. Its cornered situation in these unexplored and jungle lands, and the shortage of inhabitants, impeded its progress for many years.

As for the tribes that inhabited these regions, some vestiges of them were found in the vicinity of the municipal seat, in the Paramo de Ibáñez and in the fraction of the Mill in a gigantic rocky crag where you can see the faces of what when it perished it was an indigenous cemetery. The squatting position of those corpses makes it appear that they belonged to the Motilones, since this was their custom.

Other facts that deserve to be highlighted in its historical evolution is that the current municipality of Bucarasica was a district of San Pedro until 1907, then it was reintegrated again in 1913; In 1936, due to certain political issues, Villacaro became a district and the municipal seat was given to Bucarasica until 1948, when he again recovered the category of municipality, being named as the first mayor Dr. Lucio Pabón Núñez, his most illustrious son.

The town bore the name of San Pedro until 1932, when by order of the Assembly and in memory of one of the most illustrious men in the province of Ocaña, Don José Eusebio Caro, it was given the name of Villacaro.





Full Name: Villacaro

Foundation: July 26, 1859

Founders: Gregorio Silva, Juan Moncada, and Fernando Rodríguez.

Population: DANE 2005 Census: 5,044 inhabitants

Altitude: 1,600 meters above sea level.

Extension: 402 Km2

Climate: Average 20º C.

Distance to Cúcuta: 191 Km

Geographic coordinates: Longitude west of Greenwich 72º 59´, North latitude 7º 55´

Limits: North: Ábrego and Bucarasica

South: Cáchira and Salazar

East: Lourdes and Gramalote

West: Abrego

Region: central

Rivers: Sardinata and Tarra, in addition to numerous streams such as El Roble and Agua Blanca that supply the municipal aqueduct.

Economy:

Agriculture: Big Onion, Coffee, Panelera Cane, Banana

Livestock: Cattle, Pigs and Sheep





Holidays:

July 29 festivities

Colrosarinas Festivities

Christmas Novena

Easter

Tourist sites:

San Pedro Church

Principal Park

Monument to Christ the King

Monument to the Virgin of Lourdes

Bullring ´´San Isidro´´

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