It is the commercial capital of Caquetá due to its frequent economic traffic, since its fertile lands are manipulated by farmers and agricultural personnel, who know how to make the most of it.

The founders of El Doncello, besides Molina, were: Daniel Claros, Ricardo España, Jesús Collazos, Rufino Quichoya, Calixto Morales and Carlos Polanco.

Around 1959, an area of El Doncello (Maguaré) was accepted as a colonization center of the Caja Agraria, which expanded the agricultural frontier with more than 25,000 hectares with about 3,000 settlers from different regions of the country.

Given the Caja's manifest inexperience with the management of these programs and the control of credits, land and its exploitation, in 1961 the project was handed over to Incora, created for this purpose.

1678 of September 7, 1967, signed by Mayor Octavio Macias Ramirez and Secretary of Government Juan Puyo Falla this territory was promoted to the category of Municipality.

The National Direct Dial telephony arrived in 1992, previously it worked through two telephone lines that were distributed among the inhabitants through a switchboard located in Telecom.

(Most of the information was acquired thanks to Parroquia San Juan Bautista, with the help of the priests: Carlos Hernán Cubillos, Jorge Hugo Poveda Vega, José Sair Álvarez Ortíz, Freddy Galindo Ramírez and Misael Hernández España).

The inadequate exploitation of soil resources, oriented almost exclusively to extensive cattle ranching in the Amazonian highlands and the low levels of productivity in agricultural exploitation in the foothills of the mountain range, deprive the municipality of El Doncello, as is the case in the other municipalities of Caquetá, of a solid economic base that allows for a true complementarity between the countryside and urban areas.