Soil Survey Report of the Llanos Orientales, Colombia. General Report.
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In 1956 the Mission of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development proposed that the Government of Colombia should take the necessary measures to obtain more detailed information about the potential production of the vast and scarcely populated region of the Llanos Orientales. The Mission recommended that a soil survey and classification should be made of the areas easiest to settle. A preliminary study in the northeast of the Llanos had shown that the land had good physical ch aracteristics,and growth experiments with various crops, e.g. sesame, rubber, cacao and rice, and been favorable. A small number of settlers had begun to cross the Andes passes and to till the soil and raise livestock in the Llanos Orientales. The Government of Colombia, endeavoring to guide the development of the Llanos Orientales along rational lines, requested the United Nations Special Fund to undertake a Project to carry out a soil survey and prepare information on land capability in an area of approximately 16.8 million hectaree.