Welcome to "Vista Hermosa and its past". We’ll talk about the history of this municipality.

Talking about this municipality, we could highlight its main features. It’s located in the Southwest of Meta. It currently has 25.461 people, which are located in 7 hamlets, 8 populated centers and 84 villages. Vista Hermosa's main economic income is based in the sowing of cocoa, oil palm, rice, cassava, plantain, papaya and on the hand livestock.

Puerto Dulce, first name given to this pretty municipality, which was founded by four settlers: Ramón Arroyabe, Pedro Enrique Angulo, Ernesto Oliveros and Cristóbal Loiza, In the main park, it is the statue of the last founder who lived in here. Due to the increase in habitants, in 1969 they declared Vista Hermosa a municipality.

In the 1980s, Vista Hermosa not only strengthened different armed paramilitary groups and guerrillas such as the FARC, but also drug traffickers and emerald dealers from Boyacá began to buy large extensions of land in the Eastern Plains. One of the consequences of this was the effects on families with the loss of beloved ones and the displacement of their lands.

At least two massacres have been recorded in Vista Hermosa, perpetrated by "Los Masetos" paramilitary group. The first one occurred on April 10, 1991, and four people were murdered; the second one was in February 1992, leaving seven peasants murdered. In the department of Meta, an average rate of 90 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants was registered, making it the second department with the most victims of this crime in the entire country, after Arauca.

Despite so much violence, Vista Hermosa is currently in a state of peace, in which its inhabitants have created spaces for the construction of memory and peace.